corrode
verb (used with object)
to eat or wear away gradually as if by gnawing, especially by chemical action.
had been corroding
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past perfect progressiveof corrode.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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The part that collapsed during the demolition was supported by steel-encased concrete piles that had been corroding for years.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 27, 2022
And the kind-hearted disciplinarian swung himself off the desk and departed, and with him nearly all the rankling bitterness which had been corroding Haviland’s mind.
From Haviland's Chum by Bertram Mitford
And Susan was still in the first flush of the joy of escape from the noisome prison whose poisons had been corroding her, soul and body.
From Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise by David Graham Phillips
The monk, as is usual in such cases, came to the help of the convert, and received all the outpourings of that soul, as it stripped itself of the evil which had been corroding it.
From Spontaneous Activity in Education by Maria Montessori
