Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To eat into; corrode; wear away.
- Corrosive.
- noun A corrosive.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Corrosive.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Obsolete form of
corrosive .
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Examples
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In summer, then, the amount of water seeking outlet by these drainage channels to the sea was enormously multiplied, and the corrasive power was correspondingly augmented.
The Romance of the Colorado River Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh 1894
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The erosive and corrasive power of water being the chief land sculptors, it is evident that there will be a continual wearing down of the faces of the bounding cliffs.
The Romance of the Colorado River Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh 1894
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A suspicion arises, on contemplating some of these apparent discrepancies, that the prevailing conditions of corrasion are not what they were at some earlier period, when they were such that it was rendered more rapid and violent; that there was perhaps an epoch when these deep-cut tributary canyons carried perennial streams, and when the volume of the Colorado itself was many times greater, possessing a multiplied corrasive power, while the adjacent areas were about as arid as now.
The Romance of the Colorado River Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh 1894
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