Abrasion
- n. A superficial excoriation, with loss of substance under the form of small shreds.
- n. The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction; as, the abrasion of coins.
- n. The substance rubbed off.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.