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abrasions

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  1. The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction.
  2. The substance thus rubbed off; debris.
  3. The effect of mechanical erosion of rock, especially a river bed, by rock fragments scratching and scraping it.
  4. An abraded, scraped, or worn area.

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