Crossword-Solution: ABRADED
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Abraded | imp. & p. p. | of Abrade |
We have 22 clues for the answer “ABRADED”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Wore down by friction | 1 answer |
| Roughened by rubbing | 1 answer |
| Rubbed away | 1 answer |
| Scraped off | 1 answer |
| Chafed | 2 answers |
| Rubbed roughly | 2 answers |
| Sanded, e.g. | 2 answers |
| Scraped away | 2 answers |
| Rubbed off. | 3 answers |
| Scraped | 4 answers |
| Wore away | 5 answers |
| Wore down | 6 answers |
| Worn away. | 7 answers |
| Wore | 8 answers |
| Worn down | 10 answers |
| A FRAGMENT SCRAPED OFF OF SOMETHING AND COLLECTED | 10 answers |
| BE RUBBED WRONG WAY | 10 answers |
| BE RUBBED THE WRONG WAY | 10 answers |
| AWAY WORE | 10 answers |
| Rubbed the wrong way | 14 answers |
| Burnished | 33 answers |
| Worn | 62 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATREE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ABRADED (5)
The rain had been heavier here, and all foot and horse tracks made previous to the storm had been abraded and blurred by the drops, and they were now so many little scoops of water, which reflected the flame of the match like eyes.
The flanks of all the interior ranges are seen to have been heavily abraded and ground away by the ice acting in a direction parallel with their axes.
Pain and misery turned in John’s limbs to a harrowing impatience and blind desire of change; now he would roll in his harsh lair, and when the flints abraded him, was almost pleased; now he would crawl to the edge of the huge pit and look dizzily down.
Thus ate they, starving, all that teeth may bite Or fire might soften, or might pass their throats Dry, parched, abraded; food unknown before Nor placed on tables: while the leaguered foe Was blessed with plenty.
About the level of the larynx, the epidermis was distinctly abraded, indicating where the rope had been.
Quotes with ABRADED (3)
The yard was a little centre of regeneration. Here, with keen edges and smooth curves, were forms in the exact likeness of those he had seen abraded and time-eaten on the walls. These were the ideas in modern prose which the lichened colleges presented in old poetry. Even some of those antiques might have been called prose when they were new. They had done nothing but wait, and had become poetical. How easy to the smallest building; how impossible to most men.
Some memories never heal. Rather than fading with the passage of time, those memories become the only things that are left behind when all else is abraded. The world darkens, like electric bulbs going out one by one. I am aware that I am not a safe person.
Because the thing of it is, no matter how much you enjoy sex, there’s something jolting and strangely disturbing about witnessing the sex of others. Nature has taken great pains to lay out the fundamentals of copulation so that it’s impossible to get a particularly good view of the sex you’re having. Because when you get right down to it, sex is a messy, gritty, often grotesque business to behold: the hairs; the abraded, dimpled flesh; the wide-open orifices; the exposed, gli…
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Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 25 times in crossword archives (1942–2015).