erode
[ih-rohd]
- 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.
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- to become eroded.
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Origin of erode
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erode
- to grind or wear down or away or become ground or worn down or away
- to deteriorate or cause to deterioratejealousy eroded the relationship
- (tr; usually passive) pathol to remove (tissue) by ulceration
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Word Origin
C17: from Latin ērōdere, from ex- 1 + rōdere to gnaw
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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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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
erode
(ĭ-rōd′)- To wear away by or as if by abrasion.
- To eat into; ulcerate.
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