abrasion

Etymology
. From (attested since 1611), from, from. See also abrade.

Noun

 * 1) The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction.
 * 2)  The substance thus rubbed off; debris.
 * 3)   The effect of mechanical erosion of rock, especially a river bed, by rock fragments scratching and scraping it.
 * 4) An abraded, scraped, or worn area.
 * 5)   A superficial wound caused by scraping; an area of skin where the cells on the surface have been scraped or worn away.
 * 6)  The wearing away of the surface of the tooth by chewing.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:injury

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan: abrasió
 * Dutch: afschuring
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: გაცვეთა, გახეხვა, ცვეთა
 * German:, Abschürfen, Abtragen,
 * Greek:, εκτριβή
 * Hindi: रगड़न
 * Indonesian:, pengampelasan
 * Italian:
 * Latin: abrāsiō
 * Macedonian: три́ење
 * Malay: pelelasan
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Romagnol: abrașiôn
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovak: odieranie, obrusovanie
 * Spanish:


 * Dutch:, brandingserosie
 * Finnish: hiomapöly, hiomajäte
 * Indonesian:
 * Malay: lelasan


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:, , Abtrag
 * Greek: αποξύρηση
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: scríobchaitheamh
 * Latvian: abrāzija, viļņgrauze
 * Macedonian: абра́зија
 * Malay: lelasan
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian: abrázija
 * Slovak: abrázia
 * Spanish: ,
 * Vietnamese: sự bào mòn


 * Finnish:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: τρῖμμα
 * Indonesian:
 * Macedonian: гребна́тина
 * Malay: lelasan
 * Serbo-Croatian:


 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: ожулване
 * Catalan: abrasió
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: hiertymä
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:, ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer: ការដាច់រយះ
 * Lithuanian: nubrozdinimas
 * Macedonian: жу́лење
 * Maori: riwha
 * Mongolian: шалбархай,
 * Polish: przetarcie
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: odrenina
 * Spanish:, , raspadura
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Vietnamese: chỗ bị trầy


 * Finnish:
 * Slovak: abrázia


 * Interlingua:
 * Italian:
 * Vietnamese:, , ,

Etymology
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