abrade
- v wear away
- v rub hard or scrub
- It's enough to abrade the nerves of a discerning writer like myself, who sits through this fluff searching for needles in haystacks.
- The fault for this lies in a script that would rather ingratiate than abrade, in direction that is content to realize, in documentary fashion, the ugly surfaces of asylum life.
- Air pollutants abrade, corrode, tarnish, soil, erode, crack, weaken and discolor materials of all varieties.