Synonyms of the word

abrasion

• n. The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction.
• n. (obsolete) The substance thus rubbed off; debris.
• n. (geology) The effect of mechanical erosion of rock, especially a river bed, by rock fragments scratching…
• n. An abraded, scraped, or worn area.
• n. (medicine) A superficial wound caused by scraping; an area of skin where the cells on the surface have…
• n. (dentistry) The wearing away of the surface of the tooth by chewing.

attrition

• n. Wearing or grinding down by friction.
• n. The gradual reduction in a tangible or intangible resource due to causes that are passive and do not involve…
• n. (human resources) A gradual, natural reduction in membership or personnel, as through retirement, resignation,…
• n. (sciences) The loss of participants during an experiment.
• n. (theology) Imperfect contrition or remorse.
• n. (dentistry) The wearing of teeth due to their grinding.
• n. (linguistics) The loss of a first or second language or a portion of that language.

corrasion

• n. wear caused by wind-blown or water-borne sand.
• n. wear caused by stream-borne or glacier-borne stones.
• n. wear caused by collisions between stones under the influence of seaside breakers.

detrition

• n. attrition; erosion by friction.

eroding

• v. present participle of erode.

erosion

• n. (uncountable) The result of having been worn away or eroded, as by a glacier on rock or the sea on a cliff…
• n. (uncountable) The changing of a surface by mechanical action, friction, thermal expansion contraction,…
• n. (uncountable, figuratively) The gradual loss of something as a result of an ongoing process.
• n. (uncountable) Destruction by abrasive action of fluids.
• n. (mathematics, image processing) One of two fundamental operations in morphological image processing from…
• n. (dentistry) Loss of tooth enamel due to non-bacteriogenic chemical processes.
• n. (medicine) A shallow ulceration or lesion, usually involving skin or epithelial tissue.

excoriation

• n. The act of excoriating or flaying.
• n. The excoriated place or the state of being excoriated, or stripped of the skin; abrasion.
• n. Severe verbal denouncing.

friction

• n. The rubbing of one object or surface against another.
• n. Conflict, as between persons having dissimilar ideas or interests; clash.
• n. (physics) A force that resists the relative motion or tendency to such motion of two bodies in contact.

grinding

• v. present participle of grind.
• n. The action of grinding together or crushing into small particles.
• n. (dance) A form of dance in which two people rub their bodies together.
• n. (online gaming) Repeatedly performing the same quest or similar in-game activity in order to amass points…
• adj. Of or pertaining to the act or sound of grinding.

lesion

• n. A wound or injury.
• n. (medicine) An infected or otherwise injured or diseased organ or part, especially such patch of skin.
• n. (biochemistry) Any compound formed from damage to a nucleic acid.
• v. (transitive) To wound or injure, especially in an experiment or other controlled procedure.

rubbing

• n. An impression of an embossed or incised surface made by placing a piece of paper over it and rubbing with…
• v. present participle of rub.

scrape

• v. To draw an object, especially a sharp or angular one, along (something) while exerting pressure.
• v. To injure or damage by rubbing across a surface.
• v. To barely manage to achieve.
• v. To collect or gather, especially without regard to the quality of what is chosen.
• v. (computing) To extract data by automated means from a format not intended to be machine-readable, such…
• v. To occupy oneself with getting laboriously.
• v. To play awkwardly and inharmoniously on a violin or similar instrument.
• v. To draw back the right foot along the ground or floor when making a bow.
• v. To express disapprobation of (a play, etc.) or to silence (a speaker) by drawing the feet back and forth…
• n. A broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch).
• n. A fight, especially a fistfight without weapons.
• n. An awkward set of circumstances.
• n. (Britain, slang) A D and C or abortion; or, a miscarriage.
• n. A shallow depression used by ground birds as a nest; a nest scrape.

scratch

• v. To rub a surface with a sharp object, especially by a living creature to remove itching with nails, claws,…
• v. To rub the skin with rough material causing a sensation of irritation.
• v. To mark a surface with a sharp object, thereby leaving a scratch (noun).
• v. To cross out, strike out, strike through some text on a page.
• v. (music) To produce a distinctive sound on a turntable by moving a vinyl record back and forth while manipulating…
• v. (billiards) To commit a foul in pool, as where the cue ball is put into a pocket or jumps off the table.
• v. (billiards, dated, US) To score, not by skillful play but by some fortunate chance of the game.
• v. To write or draw hastily or awkwardly.
• v. To dig or excavate with the claws.
• v. To dig or scrape (a person's skin) with claws or fingernails in self-defense or with the intention to…
• n. (countable) A disruption, mark or shallow cut on a surface made by scratching.
• n. An act of scratching the skin to alleviate an itch or irritation.
• n. (sports).
• n. (slang) Money.
• n. A feed, usually a mixture of a few common grains, given to chickens.
• n. (in the plural) Minute, but tender and troublesome, excoriations, covered with scabs, upon the heels of…
• n. A kind of wig covering only a portion of the head.
• n. (music) A genre of Virgin Islander music, better known as fungi.
• adj. For or consisting of preliminary or tentative, incomplete, etc. work.
• adj. Hastily assembled; put together in a hurry or from disparate elements.
• adj. (computing, from scratchpad) Relating to a data structure or recording medium attached to a machine for…
• adj. Constructed from whatever materials are to hand.
• adj. (sports) (of a player) Of a standard high enough to play without a handicap, i.e. to compete without the…
• adj. Made, done, or happening by chance; arranged with little or no preparation; determined by circumstances;…

wearing

• adj. intended to be worn.
• adj. causing tiredness.
• adj. causing erosion.
• n. The mechanical process of eroding or grinding.
• n. The act by which something is worn.
• n. That which is worn; clothes; garments.
• v. present participle of wear.

wound

• n. An injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body.
• n. (figuratively) A hurt to a person's feelings, reputation, prospects, etc.
• n. (criminal law) An injury to a person by which the skin is divided or its continuity broken.
• v. (transitive) To hurt or injure (someone) by cutting, piercing, or tearing the skin.
• v. (transitive) To hurt (a person's feelings).
• v. simple past tense and past participle of wind.