Abrase

  

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Abrase

Definition: Abrase

Abrase

Verb

1. Wear away.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Etymology: Abrase \Ab*rase"\, adjective. [Latin expression abrasus, past participle of abradere. See Abrade.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Abrase

Synonyms: abrade (v), corrade (v), rub down (v), rub off (v). (additional references)

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Modern Translations: Abrase

Language Translations for "abrase"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Pig Latin

  

abraseay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Abrase

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: abaser.

Words within the letters "a-a-b-e-r-s"

-1 letter: abase, areas, bares, baser, bears, braes, saber, sabra, sabre.

-2 letters: abas, arbs, area, ares, arse, asea, baas, bare, bars, base, bear, brae, bras, ears, eras, rase, rebs, sabe, sear, sera.

-3 letters: aas, aba, abs, arb, are, ars, baa, bar, bas, bra, ear, era, ers, ras, reb, res, sab, sae, sea, ser.

-4 letters: aa, ab, ae, ar, as, ba, be, er, es, re.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-b-e-r-s"
 

+1 letter: abasers, abaters, abrades, abreast, arabesk, arables, subarea, zarebas.

 

+2 letters: abraders, abrasive, abreacts, algebras, ambaries, antbears, arabesks, arabizes, arbalest, baresark, barrages, barwares, bearcats, berascal, brassage, cabarets, cabresta, erasable, garbages, megabars, parables, parsable, prebasal, raisable, ratsbane, seaboard, sharable, sparable, subareas, tabarets, zareebas.

 

+3 letters: abamperes, aberrants, abrasives, abrogates, abstainer, acerbates, adsorbate, alabaster, albacores, amberinas, anaerobes, arabesque, arabinose, arbalests, ascorbate, astrolabe, aubretias, aubrietas, bacterias, balancers, bandagers, baratheas, bareboats, baresarks, barnacles, baronages, barraters, baseboard, bayadeers, bayaderes, berascals, betrayals, bigarades, braincase, brakeages, brassages, bravadoes, breakages, breakfast, broadaxes, cabrestas, cabrettas, carabines, crabmeats, daybreaks, embarrass, frambesia, graspable, habaneras, palpebras, ratsbanes, resalable, sarabande, saturable, scarabaei, seaboards, separable, shareable, sparables, spareable, subaerial, teaboards, vambraces, variables, wearables.

 

+4 letters: abandoners, aberrances, abnegators, abrasively, absorbable, absorbance, abstainers, abstracted, abstracter, adsorbable, adsorbates, adumbrates, adverbials, aerobatics, aerobrakes, alabasters, algebraist, amberjacks, ambuscader, answerable, antirabies, approbates, arabesques, arabicizes, arabinoses, arbitrages, arbitrates, ascorbates, ascribable, astrolabes, backlasher, backwaters, balderdash, balladeers, balladries, ballerinas, balustrade, bandmaster, barbarizes, barbascoes, barcaroles, bargainers, barrackers, barratries, barrelages, barricades, baseboards, bastardies, bastardise, bastardize, bathwaters, berascaled, brachiates, braincases, breakables, breakaways, breakfasts, breaksaway, broadscale, caballeros, cablegrams, calibrates, canebrakes, carabiners, carbamates, carbamides, carbazoles, carbonades, carbonates, carpetbags, casebearer, elaborates, fabricates, fastballer, frambesias, gabardines, graybeards, greaseball, guayaberas, handlebars, harborages, headboards, heartbeats, jailbreaks, karabiners, lamebrains, masturbate, measurable, measurably, paperbacks, parabioses, pasteboard, rabbinates, reasonable, reasonably, rebalances, releasable, resealable, sailboater, sandbagger, sarabandes, scabbarded, scarabaeus, searchable, skateboard, spreadable, subaverage, submanager, tablatures, tablewares, trabeculas.

 

+5 letters: abbreviates, aberrancies, aberrations, abreactions, absorbances, absorptance, abstracters, abstractest, abstractive, addressable, agoraphobes, alabastrine, albatrosses, algebraists, ambuscaders, arabilities, arabinoside, arbitragers, arborvitaes, backhanders, backlashers, backpackers, backscatter, backslapper, backstabber, bacteremias, ballplayers, balustraded, balustrades, banderillas, bandleaders, bandmasters, barbarities, barcarolles, bardolaters, bargeboards, baronetages, barrelheads, barricadoes, bastardised, bastardises, bastardized, bastardizes, berascaling, bitartrates, blackhearts, blackwaters, brainteaser, brainwashed, brainwasher, brainwashes, breadbasket, breadboards, breakfasted, breakfaster, breakwaters, breastplate, brigandages, broadcasted, broadcaster, bureaucrats, candelabras, carabineers, carabineros, carabiniers, carbonadoes, carbonnades, carboxylase, casebearers, crabgrasses, discardable, embarrassed, embarrasses, erasability, exacerbates, fastballers, flabbergast, gangbangers, grandbabies, greaseballs, haberdasher, harvestable, heartbreaks, increasable, inseparable, inseparably, interabangs, invariables, jawbreakers, labiovelars, lawbreakers, masturbated, masturbates, nonabrasive, pallbearers, paperboards, pasteboards, persuadable, pleasurable, pleasurably, portabellas, purchasable, radiolabels, rebroadcast, restartable, sailboaters, sandbaggers, sandblaster, satirizable, sauerbraten, skateboards, starboarded, subaerially, submanagers, subparallel, surpassable, syllabaries, tabernacles, talebearers, tarnishable, trabeations, traversable, treasonable, treasonably, treasurable, ungraspable.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Abrase


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 62 72 61 73 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    -...    .-.    .-    ...    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01100010 01110010 01100001 01110011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#98 &#114 &#97 &#115 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0062 0072 0061 0073 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

356884678571

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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