abrade

It is only then, once you are still, that a now low, whipping wind, riddled with sand begins pricking and abrading your skin and collecting in the pages of your novel; it is intolerable.

Its nine stories concern the complicated Bengali families in India and America, and Lahiri’s elegant, observant prose is constantly alert to the ways that lore and folkways shape or abrade relationships.

They abraded the rocks, revealing fresh surfaces that contain distinct rounded carbonate grains, a sign of settling in a lakefront.

In other words, they investigated questions such as: ������ happens when these materials are abraded or burnt?

One recent study suggests that many particles enter the water when you repeatedly open or close the cap, and tiny bits abrade.