Wear away.

synoniemen: abrase, corrade, rub down, rub off.

Roget 38: subduct, subtract; deduct, deduce; bate, retrench; remove, withdraw, take from, take away; detract.    garble, mutilate, amputate, detruncate^†; cut off, cut away, cut out; abscind^†, excise; pare, thin, prune, decimate; abrade, scrape, file; geld, castrate; eliminate.    diminish etc. 36; curtail etc. (shorten) 201; deprive of etc. (take) 789; weaken.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 195: become small, become smaller; lessen, decrease etc. 36; grow less, dwindle, shrink, contract, narrow, shrivel, collapse, wither, lose flesh, wizen, fall away, waste, wane, ebb; decay etc. (deteriorate) 659.    be smaller than, fall short of; not come up to etc. (be inferior) 34.    render smaller, lessen, diminish, contract, draw in, narrow, coarctate^†; boil down; constrict, constringe^†; condense, compress, squeeze, corrugate, crimp, crunch, crush, crumple up, warp, purse up, pack, squeeze, stow; pinch, tighten, strangle; cramp; dwarf, bedwarf^†; shorten etc. 201; circumscribe etc. 229; restrain etc. 751.    [reduce in size by abrasion or paring. ] (subtraction) 38 abrade, pare, reduce, attenuate, rub down, scrape, file, file down, grind, grind down, chip, shave, shear, wear down.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 330: come to dust; be disintegrated, be reduced to powder &c.. reduce to powder, grind to powder; pulverize, comminute, granulate, triturate, levigate^†; scrape, file, abrade, rub down, grind, grate, rasp, pound, bray, bruise; contuse, contund^†; beat, crush, cranch^†, craunch^†, crunch, scranch^†, crumble, disintegrate; attenuate etc. 195.    ... meer laten zien

Rub hard or scrub.

synoniem: scour.

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