abrasion
Meaning of abrasion
noun
- The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction.
- The substance thus rubbed off; debris.
- The effect of mechanical erosion of rock, especially a river bed, by rock fragments scratching and scraping it.
- An abraded, scraped, or worn area.
- A superficial wound caused by scraping; an area of skin where the cells on the surface have been scraped or worn away.
- The wearing away of the surface of the tooth by chewing.
Information about abrasion
- It is a name.
- The plural form of abrasion is: abrasions.
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Hyphenation of abrasion
abra-sion
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- abrasion is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
abrasion synonyms
Meaning scratch:
Meaning attrition:
attrition, corrasion, detrition
Meaning grinding:
grinding, attrition, detrition
Translation of abrasion
- Portuguese: abrasão
- Italian: abrasione, graffio
- Spanish: abrasión, arañazo, rasguño
- German: Schürfwunde
- French: abrasion
Anagrams of abrasion
Words that rhyme with abrasion
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