Usage examples (11)

• Abrasion: (this is also known as corrasion) - this is where rock fragments are hurled at cliffs by breaking waves, gradually scraping away at the cliff face; the load...
• Nowhere else on the face of the globe is one so vividly impressed by the vastness of the work of corrasion as in the northwestern part of
• Bones on the left side of the body showed consistent patterns of corrasion, more than on the right side, indicating that this was the side of the body that eroded out of...
• The powers of erosion are far slower than those of corrasion, especially in an arid region, because they are intermittent.