#9 abrade

abrade - to scrape away, wear down by friction, erode

- also abradant, abrader (nouns)

- from Latin C17 - abradere - to scrape away

Time abrades talent. Some poets don't seem to notice this and continue to make the same ever-thinning sound right on into oblivion. Others lapse into embittered silence. In some, though, the abrasions bloom... ~Christian Wiman

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