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abrasion
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abrasion as in:  suffered an abrasion

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    Mild abrasions, such as a scraped knee, can be treated at home.
    abrasions = injury by scraping the skin
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    Grant himself was all right except for a claw abrasion down his right chest, where the tyrannosaur had kicked him.  (source)
    abrasion = torn skin
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    When I touched the abrasion, Shawn released a long sigh and his eyes opened.  (source)
    abrasion = area where the skin was torn or worn off
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    "It just won't budge," Mrs. Weasley was saying anxiously, standing over Hermione with her wand in her hand and a copy of The Healer's Helpmate open at "Bruises, Cuts, and Abrasions."  (source)
    Abrasions = injury by scraping the skin
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    Fat Argyll-vest man; cankered old lady; a milky duckling of a little girl, red abrasion at her temple but otherwise hardly a mark on her.  (source)
    abrasion = injury where the skin is scraped
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    His hands were abraded and exhausted, but he listened to his heart.  (source)
    abraded = scraped or torn
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    Abrasions on my legs, which will require skin grafts; and on my face, which will require cosmetic surgery—but, as the doctors note, that is only if I am lucky.  (source)
    Abrasions = injuries where the skin has been scraped away
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    Paul remembered how the smell of burned sulfur from abrasion of 'thopter skids against sand had drifted across them.†  (source)
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    In the same instant, the shackle on my right ankle clicked open and fell off, revealing a band of abraded red skin.  (source)
    abraded = injured by scraping
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    He had a single bullet wound on the left side of his chest, between the base of the neck and the shoulder, and several cuts and abrasions to his face.  (source)
    abrasions = injury by scraping the skin
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    Sudden thunder rumbles in the distance; the sky pulses red like an angry abrasion.†  (source)
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    You had three broken ribs, a cracked tibia, countless abrasions, and a horrific amount of blood loss, Otis.  (source)
    abrasions = areas where the skin is torn or worn off
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    When I tried to examine the abrasion more closely she shook me off, her hands raised diffidently in that long-familiar gesture of hers, as if my closeness were an unbearable weight.†  (source)
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abrasion as in:  mechanical abrasion

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    The constant friction between the machine parts led to significant abrasion.
    abrasion = wear from rubbing
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    In a blink, she gulped down the rabbits and then licked clean the stone with the organs, abrading the slate with the barbs on her tongue.†  (source)
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    He had a moment to register the feel of her skin under his hands, ...abrading against the urgent need to mate.†  (source)
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    The initials PP were embossed along its top, the curves and arches of the letters abraded over time into a pale felt.†  (source)
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    She could not believe that she was now kneeling on the hurtful, abrading concrete, drawing her children toward her so smotheringly tight that she felt that their flesh might be engrafted to hers even through layers of clothes.†  (source)
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    He was mounted on a traditional Haitian saddle, made of straw, designed, it would seem, to abrade the backs of donkeys and ponies until they bled.†  (source)
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    My heart turns rough; it abrades my side like a file with two edges: one, that I adore his magnificence; the other I despise his slovenly accents—I who am so much his superior—and am jealous.†  (source)
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    They were in throwing range as he finished reloading, and a stick struck him on the forehead and brought blood in abraded drops.†  (source)
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    I am not sinuous or suave; I sit among you abrading your softness with my hardness, quenching the silver-grey flickering moth-wing quiver of words with the green spurt of my clear eyes.†  (source)
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    But a life on horseback, in hot sun and dry wind and the nip of winter, had already begun to abrade the smooth, hard planes of youth and bless him with a pleasantly worn and appealing face that spoke of deep experience and rural wisdom.†  (source)
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    And then Liv, too, must be misremembering the scene, for she's been equally grateful and then nervous, no doubt abraded by this rough brush with mortality.†  (source)
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    The clean cuffed hand holds up an abraded stick.†  (source)
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    The familiar sensation of an abraded shin recalled his dazed faculties.†  (source)
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