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abrado

abrado, to scrape away, shave off

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.

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