Origin: Latin suffix -sion
Abrasion has 4 different meanings across 1 category:
an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off
"The child scraped his knee on the rough bark, leaving a painful abrasion that bled slightly when he moved."
The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction.
"The rough fabric caused a painful abrasion on his cheek where it rubbed against his chin during sleep."
The word comes from the French abrasion, which traces back to the Latin verb abrādō meaning "to scrape off." Its original sense was "a scraping," a definition that has remained consistent since its first recorded use in 1656.