(verb) : ab-rādo, si, sum, 3
* To scratch off or away, to scrape away, rub off; of the beard, to shave.
* Lit.: manibus quidquam abradere membris,Lucr. 4, 1103; so id. 4, 1110: supercilia penitus abrasa,Cic. Rosc. Com. 7, 20: barbam in superiore labro,Plin. 6, 28, 32, § 162.—Of plants: partes radicum,to grub up,Plin. 17, 11, 16, § 82; cf. arida,Col. 10, 3: abrasae fauces,made rough,Luc. 6, 115: abrasa corpora, peeled off, ἀποσύρματα, Scrib. Comp. 215.
* Meton., to take or snatch away, to seize, extort, rob, Ter. Phorm. 2, 2, 19: nihil a Caecinā litium terrore,Cic. Caecin. 7, 19: aliquid bohis,Plin. Pan. 37, 2.

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