abrade

Putting hands down to break a fall will abrade the palms.

Maybe they had been abraded by the dust of the explosion.

It lasted so long that his personality was abraded away.

He'd abraded the unhealthy flesh under one eye in the fall.

The longer he spoke, the more his tone abraded her nerves.

Stiffly, abrading her thighs at every step, she went toward him.

She'd just have to get another bot to abrade the wood down still further.

It lasts hundreds of years if it's not abraded in cleaning.

A completely dry finish will abrade into a fine white powder.

A slow scraping of fear began to abrade his nerves.

The shirt might have been sackcloth, the way it abraded him.

He could feel the sand distinctly, but nothing abraded his own flesh.

This kind of comedy needs rough edges to abrade as it should.

Even as I stood there, my flesh was abrading.

The teeth abrade away against one another, giving them a constantly sharp edge.

It was dragging him now, and his back was already abraded.

She felt his mustache and side whiskers abrade her skin.

The thickness of his hair slid across the open wound, abrading it.

The metal fingers abraded the feathers, but she ignored the pain.

God, he thought, but his temper was being abraded to a raw bloody edge.

His features were regular but vague, like a sculpture that had been abraded.

"From the way she's limping around, you'd think they were completely abraded.

The highlights and shadows are not abraded in the least.'

After all these years, certainly there was a fondness, a habit that sat well with us both, and did not abrade.

All he succeeded in doing was to make a racket and abrade his wrists more than they already were.