verb transitive

ab-rādo

2nd PP ab-rādere · 3rd PP ab-rādsi · 4th PP ab-rādsum · conj. 3rd

to scratch off; away; scrape away

to scratch off or away, to scrape away, rub off; of the beard, to shave.

peeled off ••

Lit.: manibus quidquam abradere membris, Lucr. 4, 1103; so id. 4, 1110: supercilia penitus abrasa, Cic. Rosc. Com. 7, 20: barbam in superiore labro, Plin. 6, 28, 32, § 162.—Of plants: partes radicum, to grub up, Plin. 17, 11, 16, § 82; cf. arida, Col. 10, 3: abrasae fauces, made rough, Luc. 6, 115: abrasa corpora, peeled off, ἀποσύρματα, Scrib. Comp. 215.—

to take; snatch away; to seize by metonymy •

Meton., to take or snatch away, to seize, extort, rob, Ter. Phorm. 2, 2, 19: nihil a Caecinā litium terrore, Cic. Caecin. 7, 19: aliquid bohis, Plin. Pan. 37, 2.

Perseus ID: n172 Key: abrado