abrade
verb
[ əˈbreɪd ]
• scrape or wear away by friction or erosion.
• "it was a landscape slowly abraded by a fine, stinging dust"
Similar:
wear away/down,
wear,
erode,
scrape away,
corrode,
eat away at,
gnaw away at,
bite into,
scour,
rasp,
strip,
flay,
Origin:
late 17th century: from Latin abradere, from ab- ‘away, from’ + radere ‘to scrape’.
