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What is the verb for abrasion?

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abrade
  1. (transitive) To rub or wear off; erode. [First attested in the late 17th century.]
  2. (transitive) To wear down or exhaust, as a person; irritate. [First attested in the mid 18th century.]
  3. (transitive) To irritate by rubbing; chafe. [First attested in the mid 18th century.]
  4. (transitive) To cause the surface to become more rough.
  5. (intransitive) To undergo abrasion.
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  7. Examples:
    1. “Avoid hard brushes that may abrade the surface of the fabric and create a fibrillation effect.”
      “Artisans in the Hongshan culture there probably used bamboo fibers to abrade stones into jewelry and animal amulets.”
      “Milling machines have rotating cutting surfaces that abrade substances with which they come into contact.”
abrase
  1. (transitive) To wear down; rub clean; smoothen; abrade. [First attested in the late 15th century.]
abrade
  1. (transitive) Obsolete spelling of abraid
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Avoid hard brushes that may abrade the surface of the fabric and create a fibrillation effect.”
      “Artisans in the Hongshan culture there probably used bamboo fibers to abrade stones into jewelry and animal amulets.”
      “Milling machines have rotating cutting surfaces that abrade substances with which they come into contact.”
abrases
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abrase
abrades
abraded
  1. simple past tense and past participle of abrade
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Approximately 5 to 10 mg of powder was drilled from each tooth after the surface had been abraded to remove possible contamination.”
      “Heavy machines then pounded and abraded them to make the surfaces smooth and uniform.”
      “By a woody grain printing process, a woody grain pattern is printed on the abraded surface.”
abrased
  1. simple past tense and past participle of abrase
abrading
  1. present participle of abrade
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The lubrication protects the individual strands of thread from abrading each other during normal usage.”
      “At such high revs, the pistons will be doing a super job of abrading the cylinder walls.”
      “The cutting or abrading action of the file results from rubbing it, usually by hand, against the workpiece.”
abrasing
  1. present participle of abrase
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