Meaning

7 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction.

    The metal surface showed signs of abrasion after years of use.

    Abrasion, Abschürfen, Abtragen

    тре́ниеtrénije, истира́ниеistiránije

  2. (countable, uncountable)An act of abrasiveness.

  3. (countable, uncountable)The effect of mechanical erosion of rock, especially a river bed, by rock fragments scratching and scraping it.

    Abrasion, Abrieb, Abtrag

    абра́зияabrázija

  4. (countable, uncountable)An abraded, scraped, or worn area.

    an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off

  5. (countable, uncountable)A superficial wound caused by scraping; an area of skin where the cells on the surface have been scraped or worn away.

    The doctor cleaned the small skin abrasion on her knee.

    Abrasion, Abschürfung

    сса́динаssádina

  6. (countable, uncountable)The wearing away of the surface of the tooth by chewing.

  7. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)The substance thus rubbed off; debris.

Examples

2 sentences
  1. This ankle abrasion is still sore.

    deDiese Knöchelschürfung ist noch wund.

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  2. It's just an abrasion and a bruise. Nothing's broken.

    ruЭто просто ссадина и ушиб. Ничего не сломано.

    deEs ist nur eine Schürfwunde und eine Prellung. Nichts ist gebrochen.

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 3
act of abrading:
geology: effect of mechanical erosion of rock:
medicine: superficial wound:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
act of abrading:
geology: effect of mechanical erosion of rock:
medicine: superficial wound:

Origin

First attested in 1656. From French abrasion (attested since 1611), from Medieval Latin ab

First attested in 1656. From French abrasion (attested since 1611), from Medieval Latin abrasio (“a scraping”), from Latin abrādō (“scrape off”). See also abrade.

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Forms

plural: abrasions
Singularabrasion
Pluralabrasions

regular

Synonyms

7 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

11 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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