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abrasion

Pronunciation: /əˈbɹeɪ.ʒən/

The English word “abrasion” has 7 meanings listed here.

noun

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

Etymology

First attested in 1656. From French abrasion (attested since 1611), from Medieval Latin abrasio (“a scraping”), from Latin abrādō (“scrape off”). See also abrade.

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