abrasive material

1. 1.

   a substance that abrades or wears down

   Synonymsabrasiveabradant

   Broadermaterial

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Questions about abrasive material

What does abrasive material mean?

abrasive material means "a substance that abrades or wears down".

What is another word for abrasive material?

Close synonyms include abrasive, abradant. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is abrasive material a common word?

abrasive material is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.