Another word for abrasive
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Modifier
Causing abrasion
- Resembling sandpaper.
- Marked by or consisting of scratches:
- Making a harsh scratching noise:
- Harsh and irritating:
- Of low, common, or inferior quality.
- Lacking in delicacy or refinement:
- Vulgar or indecent:
- Disagreeable to the sense of hearing:
- Disagreeable to the sense of sight:
- Unpleasantly coarse and rough to the touch:
- Having a surface marked by irregularities, protuberances, or ridges; not smooth:
- Coarse or shaggy to the touch:
- Difficult to travel over or through:
- An abrasive.
- Abrasive.
- Present participle of abrade.
- Capable of or designed for incising, shearing, or severing:
- Sharply penetrating; piercing:
- Injuring or capable of injuring the feelings of others:
- Repetitive actions in a video game to accumulate points in order to gain experience or advance to the next level. Games may be designed for players to grind their way through in order to feel that they accomplished something. In addition, novices are allowed to make progress in a game with a lot of grinding; otherwise they would be stumped. See farming.
See also:Aggressively annoying
- Capable of burning, corroding, dissolving, or eating away by chemical action.
- Sarcastic or cutting; biting:
- Given to making caustic remarks:
- A grill or network of bars set in a window or door or used as a partition; a grate.
- A diffraction grating.
- Causing irritation, annoyance or pain.
- Stimulating or exciting a response.
- Present participle of irritate.
Noun
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- An implement typically consisting of bristles fastened into a handle, used in scrubbing, polishing, grooming, or applying a liquid.
- The act of using this implement.
- A sweeping stroke of the hand, as in removing something.
- A hard, fine-grained stone for honing tools.
- Heavy paper coated on one side with sand or other abrasive material and used for smoothing surfaces.
- To rub with or as if with sandpaper.
- A device that spreads sand on roads.
- Such a device together with the truck that carries it.
- A machine having a powered abrasive-covered disk or belt, used for smoothing or polishing surfaces:
- One of a pair of cylindrical stones used in a mill for grinding grain.
- A source of worry or distress:
- An obstacle to success.
- A container, such as a cabinet or folder, for keeping papers in order.
- A collection of papers or published materials kept or arranged in convenient order.
- A collection of data or program records stored as a unit with a single name.
- A coarse file with sharp, pointed projections.
- The act of filing with a rasp.
- A harsh grating sound.
- One that grates, as an implement with sharp-edged slits and perforations on which to grate foods.
- A person who makes something smooth or shiny.
- A tool that makes something smooth or shiny.
- A machine that makes something smooth or shiny.
- One who scarifies.
- The instrument used for scarifying.
- An implement for stripping and loosening the soil, without bringing up a fresh surface.
- A revolving stone disk used for grinding, polishing, or sharpening tools.
- A millstone.
- One who sharpens cutting edges.
- A mechanical device that grinds:
- A molar.
- One that cuts, especially in tailoring.
- A device or machine that cuts.
- A single-masted, fore-and-aft-rigged sailing vessel with two or more headsails and a mast set somewhat farther aft than that of a sloop.
- A device for making things sharp
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