abraded, ppl. a.
(əˈbreɪdɪd)
[f. abrade + -ed.]
1. Rubbed off, removed by friction.
| 1677 [See abrade 1]. 1862 Sat. Rev. 8 Feb. 155 Those youthful martyrs..cannot have restored to them the abraded cuticle they have lost. 1871 Tyndall Frag. of Sc. (ed. 6) I. xii. 362 Composed of the broken and abraded particles of older rocks. |
2. Worn by friction, rubbed; lit. and fig.
| 1792 Phil. Trans. LXXXII. 45 Part of its mass is worn away; but a larger portion, lying just above the abraded part, is heated to redness. 1877 E. Conder Basis of Faith iv. 138 What is every word but a condensed fragment of history, on whose abraded surface is still legible the handwriting of countless generations of minds? 1878 M. Foster Physiol. ii. iii. 316 But absorption takes place very readily from abraded surfaces. |