abrades
- present tense form of abrade (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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The artist abrades the surfaces of his paintings, giving them a patina of age that contributes to their folkloric vibe and makes these images even more absorbing.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026
Despite the dirt, the stains and the splitting, there’s little loss of paint — which sometimes abrades with rolling and unrolling.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 22, 2023
Time is a stream, flowing around us and through us, incising lines on faces as it abrades rocks.
From The Guardian • Aug. 28, 2010
When tape is removed, it abrades the skin.
From Washington Post
Shoshoni, the rainbow is a beautiful serpent that abrades the firmament of ice to give us snow and rain.
From Sketch of the Mythology of the North American Indians First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 17-56 by Powell, John Wesley
