EGAVE

abrasive

About 1.49 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Producing abrasion; rough enough to wear away the outer surface. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
  2. adjective Being rough and coarse in manner or disposition; overly aggressive and causing irritation.
    An abrasive person can grate on one's sensibilities.
  3. noun A hard inorganic substance or material consisting in powder or granule form such as sandpaper, pumice, or emery, used for cleaning, smoothing, or polishing.
  4. noun Rock fragments, sand grains, mineral particles, used by water, wind, and ice to abrade a land surface.

Similar words

scratchy abradant harsh rough unsmooth disagreeable abrasive material caustic sour aggressive

Often followed by

wear and particles action paper material materials wheel grains

Word family

abrasively abrasiveness abrasivenesses abrasives

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