abrade

Like dirt, those teeth will abrade fabrics during a wash cycle.

If your kit is really trashed from a wet ride, that dirt is circulating in the wash cycle, abrading your clothing even more as the wash drum turns.

Waves abrade the shore and strew the débris worn from it over the lake bed.

Wherever they find calcareous strata to abrade, the water is almost milklike in hue for miles around.

This is specially the case with Chaffinches and Bramblings: Greenfinches abrade later.

Genuine amber, when rubbed together, emits a very fragrant odour similar to a fresh lemon, and does not abrade the surface.

In all cases, however, a hard file will abrade the surface of the false stone.