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abrasions

abrasions is the plural of abrasion.

Meaning of abrasion

Noun

abrasion (countable and uncountable, plural abrasions)

  1. The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction.
    • The metal surface showed signs of abrasion after years of use.
  2. An act of abrasiveness.
  3. (obsolete) The substance thus rubbed off; debris.
  4. The effect of mechanical erosion of rock, especially a river bed, by rock fragments scratching and scraping it.
  5. An abraded, scraped, or worn area.
  6. A superficial wound caused by scraping; an area of skin where the cells on the surface have been scraped or worn away.
    • The doctor cleaned the small skin abrasion on her knee.

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Questions about abrasions

What is abrasions the plural of?
Abrasions is the plural of abrasion.

Words near abrasions in the dictionary

  1. abrasion platform
  2. abrasion platforms
  3. abrasional
  4. abrasionally
  5. abrasionless
  6. abrasions
  7. abrasive
  8. abrasive blasting
  9. abrasive blastings
  10. abrasive disc
  11. abrasive discs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: abrasions (page history and authors); abrasion (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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