abrade

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

ABRA'DE, verb transitive [Latin abrado, to scrape, from rado.] To rub or wear off; to waste by friction; used especially to express the action of sharp, corrosive medicines, in wearing away or removing the mucus of the membranes.
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