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See more synonyms for erode on Thesaurus.com verb (used with object), e·rod·ed, e·rod·ing. to eat into or away; destroy by slow consumption or disintegration: Battery acid had eroded the engine. Inflation erodes the value of our money. to form (a gully, butte, or the like) by erosion . Show More
verb (used without object), e·rod·ed, e·rod·ing. to become eroded. Show More
Origin of erode 1605–15; <
Latin ērōdere, equivalent to
ē- e-1 +
rōdere to gnaw
Related forms e·rod·i·ble , e·rod·a·ble , e·ro·si·ble [ih-roh -zuh -buh l, -suh -] /ɪˈroʊ zə bəl, -sə-/ adjective e·rod·i·bil·i·ty , e·rod·a·bil·i·ty , noun non·e·rod·ed , adjective non·e·rod·ing , adjective un·e·rod·a·ble , adjective un·e·rod·ed , adjective un·e·rod·i·ble , adjective un·e·rod·ing , adjective Dictionary.com Unabridged
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Related Words for erode destroy ,
corrode ,
gnaw ,
consume ,
disintegrate ,
bite ,
crumble ,
scour ,
spoil ,
waste ,
eat ,
abrade Examples from the Web for erode Contemporary Examples of erode That started to erode after the two officers were assaulted last week.
It serves as a potent reminder that the cost in lives of one war can erode the will of a people to fight another.
Failure to secure their quick release can erode voter confidence and advertise the impotence of government.
Admittedly, a lot of undeserved cultural authority will have to erode before this idealization can materialize.
Alternatively, passing up a shot could allow an enemy to escape, kill U.S. citizens, and erode U.S. power.
Historical Examples of erode This limit of the level of the sea beneath which they cannot erode is known as baselevel.
Secure in its grip, these are used as graving-tools to erode its bed.
There has not been time to erode them away since the Pleistocene glaciation.
It has been, and is being, created by sediments from the many torrents that erode the interior mountains.
To erode a stratum 5000 feet thick will require at this rate thirty million years.
British Dictionary definitions for erode to grind or wear down or away or become ground or worn down or away to deteriorate or cause to deteriorate jealousy eroded the relationship (tr; usually passive) pathol to remove (tissue) by ulceration Show More
Derived Forms erodent , adjective , noun erodible , adjective Word Origin for erode C17: from Latin ērōdere, from ex- 1 + rōdere to gnaw
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Word Origin and History for erode v. 1610s, a back-formation from erosion , or else from French éroder , from Latin erodere "to gnaw away, consume" (see erosion ). Related: Eroded ; eroding . Originally of acids, ulcers, etc.; geological sense is from 1830.
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To wear away by or as if by abrasion. To eat into; ulcerate. Show More
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