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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To wear (something) away by or as if by abrasion: Waves eroded the shore.
  2. v. To eat into; corrode.
  3. v. To make or form by wearing away: The river eroded a deep valley.
  4. v. To cause to diminish or deteriorate as if by eating into or wearing away: "Long enduring peace often erodes popular resolution” ( C.L. Sulzberger).
  5. v. To become worn or eaten away: The cliffs have eroded over the centuries. Public confidence in the administration eroded.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To gnaw or eat into or away; corrode.
  2. Hence To wear away, as if by gnawing: specifically used in geology of the action of water, etc., in wearing down the earth's surface.
  3. To become worn away.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To wear away by abrasion, corrosion or chemical reaction

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To eat into or away; to corrode.
  2. v. To wear away.
  3. v. To produce by erosion, or wearing away.
  4. v. fig. to reduce or lessen as if by eroding.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. remove soil or rock
  2. v. become ground down or deteriorate

Etymologies

  1. Latin ērōdere, to gnaw off, eat away : ē-, ex-, ex- + rōdere, to gnaw. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “Meanwhile Americans will be discouraged from doing the right things to mitigate the impact of higher gas prices and the nationwide system of roads will further erode from a failure to properly fund upkeep from the fuel tax.”

    McCain unyielding in call for gas tax relief

  • “It got to the point where the aluminum coating started to erode from the bracelet and I had to apply medical tape to the inside to prevent my wrist from becoming green.”

    Letters and Notes

  • “For that dynamic to erode is to mean Iraq has a chance at being a functional, healthy, successful state.”

    All Mixed Up Like Pasta Primavera | ATTACKERMAN

  • “Toyota, the world's largest automaker, has lost almost $34 billion in market value in the past two weeks and today had its "AA" debt rating put under review by Standard & Poor's as the recalls erode its brand image.”

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  • “Toyota, the world's largest automaker, has lost almost $34 billion in market value in the past two weeks and yesterday had its "AA" debt rating put under review by Standard & Poor's as the recalls erode its brand image.”

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  • “In September 2009, Patterson advised against public comment on reports of extra-judicial killings by Pakistan's military, saying such statements would "erode" goodwill within the Pakistani leadership.”

    The Washington Post: In WikiLeaks cables from Pakistan, U.S. officials struggle for leverage

  • “In any event, it will definitely be the case that certain suburbs "erode" while others stay strong.”

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  • “In response to Rep. John Murtha, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee and the Subcommittee on Defense, Gen. Peter Pace made the amazing argument that, if the military was forced by Democrats in Congress to live up to their own established standards for readiness it would actually 'erode' their fighting ability.”

    Commander Bush is Hamstrung by Democracy

  • “Because, yes, it would "erode" their "influence" around the world to some extent.”

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  • “Enforcement of the public's right to use waters of the U.S. does not "erode" private property rights, because those rights have never actually existed under the law.”

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synonyms (10)

Words with the same meaning

  1. corrode
  2. destroy
  1. eat
  2. consume
  1. weary
  2. fret
  1. rub
  2. denude
  1. wash
  2. wash away

hypernyms (3)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. crumble
  1. dilapidate
  1. decay

rhymes (53)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Rhode
  2. abode
  3. bestowed
  4. bestrode
  5. blowed
  6. bode
  7. bowed
  8. brode
  9. busload
  10. coad
  1. code
  2. coed
  3. commode
  4. corrode
  5. crowed
  6. decode
  7. encode
  8. explode
  9. flowed
  10. forebode
  1. glowed
  2. goad
  3. implode
  4. knowed
  5. load
  6. lode
  7. mode
  8. mowed
  9. node
  10. ode
  1. outmode
  2. overflowed
  3. overrode
  4. owed
  5. plateaued
  6. reload
  7. road
  8. rode
  9. roed
  10. rowed
  1. sewed
  2. showed
  3. slowed
  4. snowed
  5. sowed
  6. stowed
  7. strode
  8. toad
  9. toed
  10. towed
  1. unbowed
  2. unload
  3. zeroed

reverse dictionary (15)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. scrape
  2. erosive
  3. corrade
  1. dissect
  2. abrade
  3. wash
  1. eat
  2. wear
  3. fret
  1. gnaw
  2. eat away
  3. impetigo
  1. rejuvenate
  2. hush
  3. score

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