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Synonyms:
- lucre, eyesore, contriteness, dinero, defect, splotch, discoloration, defacement, detrition, drawback, chafing, stain, stigma, disfigurement, contrition, loot, scab, weal, distortion, pelf, score, hole, wampum, scraping, spoilage, notch, check, friction, scrubbing, hack, nick, wearing, fleck, rasping, shekels, boil, abrade, dent, hurt, simoleons, grinding, chicken feed, corrasion, pockmark, abscess, sugar, fault, cacography, start, wart, chip, starting line, gelt, black eye, cabbage, mar, lesion, speck, graze, scuff, flaw, clams, dough, scribble, lettuce, scratch line, moolah, bread, slit, tarnish, scratch, run, rift, lolly, spot, rasp, kink, damage, bedsore, bruise, crack, impurity, resistance, scrape, scratching, grind, sore, blemish, rubbing, blot, blotch, scar, imperfection, knead, blackhead, athlete's foot, freckle, fracture, incision, blister, prick, attrition, kale, deformity, gash, rub, chafe, excoriation, mark, fretting, buff, scrawl, brand, boodle, dot
Examples:
- - This is an advantage, not only on account of the time saved, but also because the cutting edges of the teeth are saved from the abrasion and its consequent wear which occur in rotating a tap backwards. - "Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II", Joshua Rose
- - Such a regulation is at all events highly expedient, as all experience shows that even gold and silver coins are liable to be diminished in weight by wear and abrasion, even if it is not absolutely necessary in order to constitute the coins, if of full weight, a legal tender. - "Monopolies and the People", D. C. Cloud
- - It seems probable that there is a paler tone to the underlying plumage parts and that this becomes revealed by loss of the superficial pigment- bearing portions through the gradual progress of feather abrasion. - "The Subspecies of the Mountain Chickadee Vol. 17, No. 17, pp. 505-515", Joseph Grinnell
