grind off

Electric sanders grind off old paint and make clouds of dust that drift far.

He hated that sensation: grinding off a piece of filling.

"You're grinding it off," he muttered out of the side of his mouth.

To get that look, the brass buttons were gold-plated, then tumbled with ceramic pellets to grind off some of the gold.

Grind off any inner tube that sticks out.

The padding keeps the armour from grinding off your skin in unusual places.

Put those hands back up there before I grind them off and make a bracelet out of sections of your bones.

Bembo did his best to grind off a toe or two, but didn't quite succeed.

A city road crew was grinding off a couple of inches of asphalt in preparation for repaving.

Never did grind the teeth off.