ab-rādo, si, sum, 3, v. a., to scratch off or away, to scrape away, rub off; of the beard, to shave.
I 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.—
II Meton., to take or snatch away , to seize , extort , rob , Ter. Phorm. 333: nihil a Caecinā litium terrore, Cic. Caecin. 7, 19: aliquid bonis, Plin. Pan. 37, 2.