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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of abrase.

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Examples

  • About 60 pages in, I realized that the characters were unpleasant, the circumstances were unbelievable, the psychiatrist who apparently delivers a significant piece of the narrative was annoying, and the writing was no great shakes either "abrased"?

    Archive 2007-02-01 Becca 2007

  • About 60 pages in, I realized that the characters were unpleasant, the circumstances were unbelievable, the psychiatrist who apparently delivers a significant piece of the narrative was annoying, and the writing was no great shakes either "abrased"?

    Another Abandoned Book Becca 2007

  • I also thought that during the lifetime of that spoon, when it is used for celebrations and gatherings, fellowship and service, that it will get dented, scratched and that during the cleansing process it will be rubbed and abrased, that even all these " scars" make it no less beautiful to you.

    An Instrument of Beauty Belinda 2007

  • Turnpike reached the office one Monday morning, some time after the events last chronicled, wearing a black eye, an abrased nose, and a scratched chin.

    William Adolphus Turnpike William Banks

  • He touched the blood-flecked side, the abrased ear; clasped close the

    Once Aboard the Lugger 1925

  • Mrs. Major forgot the throbbing of her abrased toes.

    Once Aboard the Lugger 1925

  • "Not on your tintype!" growled Ike, rubbing an abrased shin.

    The Mystery at Number Six 1922

  • And her right knee felt as though the skin was all abrased and the cap fairly cracked.

    The Corner House Girls at School Grace Brooks Hill 1917

  • Near the ends of the thumb and the first finger the skin was roughened, abrased; there were numerous tiny black spots beneath the skin, which, upon careful scrutiny, he discovered to be microscopic blood-blisters.

    Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

  • He had somehow managed to get his hand smashed between two rocks, not breaking any bones, but badly abrased and contused.

    My Strange Mind 2008

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