Denuded vs Abrasion - What's the difference?
denuded | abrasion |
(denude)
exposed by erosion
To divest of all covering; to make bare or naked; to strip; to divest; as, to denude one of clothing, or lands.
The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction.
(obsolete) The substance thus rubbed off; debris.
(geology) The effect of mechanical erosion of rock, especially a river bed, by rock fragments scratching and scraping it.
An abraded, scraped, or worn area.
(medicine) A superficial wound caused by scraping; an area of skin where the cells on the surface have been scraped or worn away.
(dentistry) The wearing away of the surface of the tooth by chewing.
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