abrade, corrade, abrase, rub down, rub off
(verb) wear away
Source: WordNet® 3.1
corrade (third-person singular simple present corrades, present participle corrading, simple past and past participle corraded)
(obsolete) To gnaw into; to wear away
Synonyms: fret, consume
(geology) To erode through physical or mechanical (rather than chemical) means, as the bed of a stream.
(obsolete) To scrape or rake together; to accumulate laboriously.
• cerrado
Source: Wiktionary
Cor*rade" (kr-rd"), v. t. Etym: [L. corradere, -rasum; cor- + radere to rub.]
1. To gnaw into; to wear away; to fret; to consume. [Obs.] Dr. R. Clerke.
2. (Geol.)
Definition: To erode, as the bed of a stream. See Corrosion.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 February 2025
(noun) an advantageous purchase; “she got a bargain at the auction”; “the stock was a real buy at that price”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
