0 past simple and past participle of abrade --
1 to remove part of the surface of something by rubbing --
Too rough, abraded the back of the tape.
As the sediment is transported, the unstable minerals are abraded or dissolve to leave more stable minerals, such as quartz.
Of the tarsometatarsus, only the end remains, but this is complete and even not very much abraded.
These often get abraded and worn smooth as the scallop ages.
Laminating paper products, such as photographs, can prevent them from becoming creased, faded, water damaged, wrinkled, stained, smudged, abraded, or marked by grease or fingerprints.
The body is covered in minute cycloid scales and its silvery, iridescent guanine coating is easily abraded.
Other forms of engraving are stipple and drypoint in which the surface of the glass is abraded with the use of small diamond tipped burrs.
In addition, there are some fossil bones that crumble or become abraded, so that they show no anatomical features at all.