rub/wear/file away/down; remove, rub off/out; wear down to smooth surface
Latin word, found 31 times in the texts on Socratos.
Ovid, Metamorphoses 13.792: levior adsiduo detritis aequore conchis,
Horace, Carmina 1.6.12: culpa deterere ingeni.
Horace, Sermones 1.10.69: detereret sibi multa, recideret omne quod ultra
All forms of detero