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  • 21raw — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. crude; unprepared, uncooked; undisciplined, unexperienced; skinned, scraped, abraded; bleak, piercing; harsh; naked; untrained; unpolished, boorish. See cold, unskillfulness, newness, unpreparedness …

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  • 22abrade — [[t]əbre͟ɪd[/t]] abrades, abrading, abraded VERB To abrade something means to scrape or wear down its surface by rubbing it. [FORMAL] [V n] ...the grazed patches on her hands where the brutally rough rock has abraded the skin …

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  • 23abrade — UK [əˈbreɪd] / US verb [transitive] Word forms abrade : present tense I/you/we/they abrade he/she/it abrades present participle abrading past tense abraded past participle abraded formal to damage something by rubbing its surface too hard …

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  • 24a|brad´er — a|brade «uh BRAYD», transitive verb, intransitive verb, a|brad|ed, a|brad|ing. 1. to wear down or away by rubbing; scrape off: »The skin on Tom s knees was abraded by his fall. Glaciers abrade rocks. 2. to wear down by …

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  • 25a|brad´a|ble — a|brade «uh BRAYD», transitive verb, intransitive verb, a|brad|ed, a|brad|ing. 1. to wear down or away by rubbing; scrape off: »The skin on Tom s knees was abraded by his fall. Glaciers abrade rocks. 2. to wear down by …

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  • 26a|brade — «uh BRAYD», transitive verb, intransitive verb, a|brad|ed, a|brad|ing. 1. to wear down or away by rubbing; scrape off: »The skin on Tom s knees was abraded by his fall. Glaciers abrade rocks. 2. to wear down by …

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  • 27Abrade — Ab*rade , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Abraded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Abrading}.] [L. abradere, abrasum, to scrape off; ab + radere to scrape. See {Rase}, {Raze}.] To rub or wear off; to waste or wear away by friction; as, to abrade rocks. Lyell. [1913… …

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  • 28Abrading — Abrade Ab*rade , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Abraded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Abrading}.] [L. abradere, abrasum, to scrape off; ab + radere to scrape. See {Rase}, {Raze}.] To rub or wear off; to waste or wear away by friction; as, to abrade rocks. Lyell.… …

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  • 29battle-scarred scarred — injured injured adj. 1. having received an injury; usually used of physical or mental injury to persons. Opposite of {uninjured}. [Narrower terms: {abraded, scraped, skinned ; {battle scarred, scarred}; {bit, bitten, stung ; {black and blue,… …

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  • 30bit bitten stung — injured injured adj. 1. having received an injury; usually used of physical or mental injury to persons. Opposite of {uninjured}. [Narrower terms: {abraded, scraped, skinned ; {battle scarred, scarred}; {bit, bitten, stung ; {black and blue,… …

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