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Examples of abrade
abrade
The eyelids can go into spasm while the eyelashes curl inward and abrade the cornea.
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They abrade or chisel the bone down to the diploe and let flesh grow over the place.
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The teeth abrade away against one another, giving the teeth a constantly sharp edge.
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Or have it polished by a professional, who will abrade it with finer and finer abrasives.
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They are able to abrade and consume a large variety of plants with the abrasive radula.
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Some seaweeds emit chemicals that are toxic to corals, while others smother or abrade corals.
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As streams constantly abrade rocks in their paths, boulders or outcrops tend to be fresher.
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Sure you can abrade the surface but how much will it add to the cost of the subsequent wafer?
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Also, different shapes of adhesive may make it harder to abrade certain areas of the workpiece.
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- Wear away
- Scour: rub hard or scrub; "scour the counter tops"
- (abraded) worn away by friction
- (ABRADED) Having a worn or rubbed appearance as a result of mechanical or chemical action. An abrasion is a localized abraded area.
- (Abraded) Many fashionable designer jeans nowadays are abraded, or artificially battered, to get a chic worn out look. Sometimes jeans are abraded with global sanding (using power sanding tools to abrade jeans).
- (Abraded) Worn away; ground down or scoured to prepare, shape, refine or polish.
- (Abraded) term used to described an artifically smoothed surface on which rock art was placed.
- (abraded) skin that is chafed, roughened, or removed by friction
- The process of removing the chrome finish from a steel shaft or the layer of paint from a graphite shaft prior to installation of the shaft into the head. Preferred abrading methods include sandpaper or a belt sander.
