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Verb
Present participle for to make something hard smaller and smoother by rubbing or abrading it
Present participle for to weaken someone's morale over a long period
Present participle for to overcome with mental or emotional stress
Present participle for to shred (usually foodstuffs), by rubbing across a grater
Present participle for to be victorious over
Noun
The process of scraping or wearing something away
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Verb
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Present participle for to make something hard smaller and smoother by rubbing or abrading it
abrading
rubbing
eroding
wearing
eating away
wearing away
rubbing down
corroding
rasping
scouring
wearing down
eating into
chafing
grinding
scraping
fraying
filing
fretting
frazzling
galling
corrading
scraping away
undermining
washing away
denuding
scratching
grazing
scuffing
skinning
excoriating
grating
eating away at
erasing
wearing off
rubbing off
roughening
flaying
irritating
triturating
biting into
stripping
gnawing away at
scraping out
rotting
whittling away
consuming
eating
gnawing
decaying
spoiling
devouring
buffing
polishing
smoothing
sandpapering
sanding
honing
barking
rubbing raw
scoring
peeling
cutting
lacerating
damaging
etching
razing
dissolving
wearing out
tattering
burnishing
worn through
impairing
nicking
distressing
shaving
wearing thin
becoming worn
scrubbing
paring
gnawing away
burning into
deteriorating
wasting
flaking
wounding
unraveling
US
unravelling
UK
brushing
shredding
nibbling
oxidating
tearing
marking
rusting
burning
rubbing against
biting at
rubbing painfully
husking
becoming ragged
hulling
becoming tattered
shucking
snicking
coming apart
decorticating
cleaning
dragging
furbishing
oxidizing
US
incising
scarifying
gouging
crumbling
corrupting
gashing
rubbing away
tarnishing
hurting
destroying
engraving
oxidising
UK
melting
decomposing
biting
becoming threadbare
burning through
wasting away
scuffing up
making a mark on
pinching
removing
notching
chipping
searing
shelling
thinning
wearing threadbare
raking
breaking the skin of
scaling
excorticating
peeling away
stripping away
denting
cankering
clearing
making ragged
inflaming
scarring
taking off
blistering
wearing to shreds
shaping
grooving
scrawling on
keying
defacing
refining
scrabbling
pricking
levelling
UK
leveling
US
finishing
swabbing
disintegrating
vaporizing
US
ablating
vaporising
UK
gritting
gnashing
cleansing
ripping
exfoliating
raveling
US
ravelling
UK
chipping away at
liquefying
exhausting
dissipating
scrunching
crunching
washing
going through
scrubbing down
running through
going into holes
wiping
purging
whitening
flushing
using
dighting
shining
weathering
overworking
overusing
bothering
fading
taxing
mopping
pumicing
buffing up
grinding away
crumbling away
cutting down
scraping off
using up
going to seed
more ❯
“A rasp is the same as a file in that both are covered with a surface of sharp teeth to
grind down
the wood.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to weaken someone's morale over a long period
persecuting
suppressing
oppressing
tormenting
maltreating
tyrannising
UK
tyrannizing
US
scourging
harassing
harrying
torturing
afflicting
molesting
destroying
weakening
ill-treating
dominating
subjugating
crushing
enslaving
coercing
ruling with a rod of iron
ruling with an iron hand
trampling
trampling underfoot
treating harshly
riding roughshod over
keeping down
holding down
domineering
browbeating
bullying
intimidating
victimising
UK
keeping under thumb
dictating to
lording it over
domineering over
bringing someone to their knees
ordering about
dictating
terrorizing
US
repressing
terrorising
UK
ruling despotically
treating brutally
pushing around
victimizing
US
ordering around
having someone under your thumb
subjecting
abusing
plaguing
hegemonizing
wronging
hounding
besetting
straining
walking all over
ruling over
ruling
chastening
controlling
putting screws to
tyrannizing over
despotizing
vexing
weighing heavy upon
annoying
overthrowing
beating down
riding
handicapping
pressing
picking on
encumbering
taxing
mastering
trampling on
outraging
worrying
holding sway over
distressing
exploiting
putting upon
forcing
aggrieving
saddling
mistreating
excruciating
overpowering
overwhelming
menacing
threatening
discriminating against
pushing about
punishing
leaning on
putting down
kicking around
subduing
harrowing
racking
agonizing
US
crucifying
overbearing
cowing
brutalizing
US
brutalising
UK
agonising
UK
hassling
needling
getting at
punishing unfairly
having it in for
ill-using
having a down on
giving a hard time
messing over
making things hot for someone
overcoming
showing antagonism to
disapproving of
hunting
injuring
martyring
showing ill will towards
bearing a grudge towards
feeling ill will towards
bedeviling
US
anguishing
bedevilling
UK
pursuing
besieging
cursing
scaring
manhandling
bulldozing
hectoring
frightening
misusing
mishandling
inflicting pain on
inflicting suffering on
kicking about
treading on
bossing about
bossing around
playing the heavy with
conquering
steamrollering
subordinating
troubling
gaining mastery over
gaining ascendancy over
gaining control of
demonizing
US
using
beating
immolating
paining
demonising
UK
stacking the deck
having your knife into
bringing to heel
rendering helpless
rendering incapable
rendering powerless
mortifying
breaking
causing pain to
causing agony to
inflicting anguish on
causing suffering to
more ❯
“I'm not impressed and I'm not scared. Don't let them
grind you down
!”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to overcome with mental or emotional stress
devastating
overcoming
overwhelming
crushing
shattering
shocking
dazing
distressing
flooring
oppressing
overmastering
overpowering
prostrating
stunning
swamping
traumatising
UK
traumatizing
US
whelming
snowing under
upsetting
greatly upsetting
knocking sideways
knocking for six
knocking the stuffing out of
blowing away
quelling
cracking down on
subduing
suppressing
quashing
vanquishing
squashing
extinguishing
repressing
putting down
defeating
squelching
silencing
wrecking
ruining
breaking
obliterating
conquering
quelching
killing
strangling
reducing
icing
slapping down
bringing someone to their knees
stamping out
forcing down
bearing down on
putting a stop to
clamping down on
putting an end to
snuffing out
blotting out
subjugating
overloading
smothering
stirring
moving
impressing
striking
touching
shaking
affecting
dazzling
spellbinding
disturbing
bowling over
taking aback
leaving speechless
sweeping over
sweeping someone off their feet
getting to
hitting for six
subordinating
treading
bringing under the yoke
putting the squeeze on
bringing to heel
treading on
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to shred (usually foodstuffs), by rubbing across a grater
grating
shredding
grinding
mincing
pulverising
UK
pulverizing
US
triturating
crumbling
crushing
granulating
fragmenting
fraying
macerating
mashing
razing
smashing
filing
shaving
skinning
slivering
rubbing into pieces
Verb
▲
Present participle for to be victorious over
overcoming
beating
conquering
defeating
besting
subduing
licking
mastering
overwhelming
overpowering
vanquishing
crushing
routing
trouncing
tanking
triumphing over
clobbering
destroying
drubbing
overthrowing
prevailing over
quelling
surmounting
thrashing
undoing
excelling
outclassing
outdoing
outstripping
stuffing
surpassing
dispatching
hammering
quashing
subjugating
worsting
demolishing
taking
upending
crucifying
curbing
devastating
downing
flooring
getting
overbearing
overmatching
pasting
skunking
slaughtering
stopping
surviving
weathering
whipping
hurdling
outliving
owning
prevailing
reducing
rendering
shellacking
shocking
stunning
throwing
walking over
winning
winning against
getting around
getting the better of
winning over
gaining a victory over
knocking out
knocking over
rendering helpless
rendering incapable
rendering powerless
rising above
walking all over
blowing out of the water
bringing someone to their knees
coming out on top of
doing down
running rings around
taking to the cleaners
coming out on top
making mincemeat of
wiping the floor with
massacring
outmatching
topping
bettering
trumping
triumphing
outperforming
outplaying
smashing
outdistancing
finishing
outgunning
outshining
beating hollow
defeating utterly
wiping out
putting paid to
cutting to pieces
knocking for six
defeating easily
gaining mastery over
defeating heavily
running circles around
creaming
murdering
annihilating
flattening
pounding
blowing out
pulverizing
US
pulverising
UK
marmalizing
giving someone a drubbing
trimming
wallopping
walloping
giving someone a hiding
whomping
slamming
trashing
waxing
caning
totalling
totaling
blowing away
burying
winning a resounding victory over
smoking
smothering
whupping
pommelling
pommeling
skinning
whopping
whapping
tromping
dusting
bombing
running rings round
pipping at the post
snowing under
overturning
flogging
zapping
swamping
outrunning
upsetting
overshadowing
torpedoing
lambasting
killing
working over
bearing down
repressing
putting in the shade
busting
trampling
subverting
humbling
eclipsing
transcending
dominating
exceeding
decking
tanning
bashing
outrivaling
outrivalling
outmaneuvering
US
wasting
outmanoeuvring
UK
overtopping
putting away
edging out
KO'ing
towering over
knocking spots off
improving on
beating up
doing better than
shooting ahead of
bulldozing
going one better than
subjecting
outwitting
pacifying
subordinating
whacking
steamrolling
putting down
ruining
whitewashing
sinking
dropping
slaying
edging
decimating
obliterating
ambushing
outflanking
butchering
routeing
overrunning
entrapping
outhitting
outjumping
shipwrecking
capping
hiding
passing
checkmating
belting
plowing under
upstaging
bludgeoning
thumping
mauling
battering
spanking
threshing
nosing out
breaking
leathering
buffeting
buffetting
outvying
running roughshod over
winning a victory over
finishing off
mowing down
taking it all
rolling
slogging
pummelling
UK
basting
pummeling
whaling
giving someone a pasting
putting an end to
bringing to ruin
taking to cleaners
rolling back
taking care of
shutting down
outranking
putting someone in their place
doing
currying
predominating
standing above
roughing up
standing head and shoulders above
leaving standing
going beyond
improving upon
punishing
messing up
going one better
shutting out
pwning
taking precedence
picking apart
chastening
wiping off the map
chastising
putting to shame
towering above
bunging up
striking down
taking a stick to
outsmarting
humiliating
lathering
thwarting
foiling
fixing one's wagon
cooking one's goose
frustrating
circumventing
wiping off the mat
doing in
discomfiting
confounding
overriding
overmastering
making a fool of
razing to the ground
suppressing
larruping
larrupping
succeeding over
putting to flight
throwing back in confusion
driving off
blowing out of water
beating back
putting to rout
cleaning up on
getting one up on
gaining the advantage over
bringing to knees
mullering
controlling
trampling underfoot
hegemonizing
knocking off
staggering
immobilizing
US
stretching
blanking
dumbfounding
overawing
overtaking
hosing
bowling over
taking out
gaining control over
shutting off
beating down
getting the upper hand over
immobilising
UK
laying out
rolling over
extinguishing
outpacing
outgoing
outstepping
taking down
giving a drubbing to
blasting
shooting down
unseating
outfighting
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Noun
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The process of scraping or wearing something away
abrasion
erosion
rubbing
scraping
corrosion
chafing
friction
grating
scratching
wear
attrition
scouring
scuffing
wearing
abrading
excoriation
flaying
stripping
wearing down
being eaten away
wearing away
deterioration
waste
weathering
undermining
disintegration
decay
detrition
consumption
corroding
loss
weakening
destruction
spoiling
dissolving
dissolution
crumbling
sapping
rotting
corrasion
despoliation
decrease
desedimentation
eating away
wear and tear
gnawing away
scraping away
chipping away
wasting away
washing away
depreciation
degeneration
diminution
oxidation
oxidization
US
damage
decomposition
wastage
damaging
rust
dilapidation
impairment
thinning
oxidisation
UK
dwindling
diminishment
battering
thinning out
slow destruction
natural wastage
a few knocks
trituration
filing
depletion
dissipation
ablation
overuse
decrement
hard wear
ravages of time
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