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abrasive
adj
- 1. Said of a material: capable of wearing away the surface of skin, wood, etc by rubbing and scraping.
- Thesaurus: sharpening, cutting, eroding, grinding, rough.
3. Relating to the process of abrasion.
4. Said of people or their actions: likely to offend others by being harsh and rude.
- Thesaurus: irritating, annoying, disturbing, caustic, harsh, grating, rude, brash, insensitive, tactless, hard to live with.
- 1. Any hard material, such as sandpaper, pumice or emery, that is used to wear away the surface of other materials, usually in order to smooth or shape them.
- Thesaurus: grinder, sander, file, grater, sharpener, cutter, millstone, grindstone, whetstone.
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