ppl. a. [f. ABRADE + -ED.]

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  1.  Rubbed off, removed by friction.

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1677.  [See ABRADE 1].

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1862.  Sat. Rev., 8 Feb., 155. Those youthful martyrs … cannot have restored to them the abraded cuticle they have lost.

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1871.  Tyndall, Frag. of Sc. (ed. 6), I. xii. 362. Composed of the broken and abraded particles of older rocks.

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  2.  Worn by friction, rubbed; lit. and fig.

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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.

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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?

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1878.  M. Foster, Physiol., II. iii. 316. But absorption takes place very readily from abraded surfaces.

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