abrasion
- Noun. The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction.
- Noun. The substance thus rubbed off.
- Noun. (medicine) A superficial excoriation, with loss of substance under the form of small shreds.
- Noun. (geology) The effect of mechanical erosion of rock, especially a river bed, by rock fragments scratching and scraping it.
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