Synonyms of the word

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.

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.

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.

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.