Synonyms of the word

abrade

• v. (transitive) To rub or wear off; erode.
• v. (transitive) To wear down or exhaust, as a person; irritate.
• v. (transitive) To irritate by rubbing; chafe.
• v. (transitive) To cause the surface to become more rough.
• v. (intransitive) To undergo abrasion.
• v. (transitive) Obsolete spelling of abraid.

abrase

• adj. (obsolete) Rubbed smooth or blank.
• v. (transitive) To wear down; rub clean; smoothen; abrade.

corrade

• v. (obsolete) To gnaw into; to wear away; to fret; to consume.
• v. (geology) To erode, as the bed of a stream.
• v. (obsolete) To scrape or rake together; to accumulate laboriously.

rub

• n. An act of rubbing.
• n. A difficulty or problem.
• n. In the game of crown green bowls: any obstacle by which a bowl is diverted from its normal course.
• n. Any substance designed to be applied by rubbing.
• v. (transitive) To move (one object) while maintaining contact with another object over some area, with pressure…
• v. (transitive) To rub something against (a second thing).
• v. (intransitive) To be rubbed against something.
• v. (transitive) To spread a substance thinly over; to smear.
• v. (dated) To move or pass with difficulty.
• v. To scour; to burnish; to polish; to brighten; to cleanse; often with up or over.
• v. To hinder; to cross; to thwart.

scour

• v. To clean, polish, or wash something by rubbing and scrubbing it vigorously.
• v. To remove dirt and debris by purging; to sweep along or off (by a current of water).
• v. To search an area thoroughly.
• v. (intransitive, medicine) (Of livestock,) to suffer from diarrhea or dysentery.
• v. (transitive, veterinary medicine) To purge.
• v. (obsolete) To cleanse.
• n. The removal of sediment caused by swiftly moving water.
• n. A place scoured out by running water, as in the bed of a stream below a fall.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To run with speed; scurry; move swiftly over; to brush along.