corrode
verb (used with object)
to eat or wear away gradually as if by gnawing, especially by chemical action.
was corroding
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past progressiveof corrode.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Mr. McDougall notes that Mary Shelley “had seen it all coming” decades before Dostoyevsky and Nietzsche warned that Europe was corroding itself from within.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026
For generations, the water infrastructure beneath this southern Alabama city was corroding, cracking and failing — out of sight and seemingly out of mind — as the population shrank and poverty rose.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 4, 2024
"It was becoming more like Suharto's Indonesia, where it was corroding the foundations of the system."
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2022
The chemicals in the box were strong enough that it was corroding, according to Counts.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 5, 2017
Bertram felt that a deep grief was corroding Gotzkowsky's life—a grief whose destructive influence was greater because he avoided the expression of it, and sought no relief nor consolation by communicating it to others.
From The Merchant of Berlin An Historical Novel by L. (Luise) Mühlbach
