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What does erode mean?
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erode Verb

— Wind or water erode something, when they slowly make part of it go away. The river is slowly eroding its bank (edge of the river). In a few years we'll have to move our house farther away. The wind and rain had eroded the stone over the years so that it was difficult to read the old letters carved in it.

erode

— verb remove soil or rock Rain eroded the terraces — verb become ground down or deteriorate Her confidence eroded

Synonyms erode synonyms

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erode English » English

corrode wear away eat away wash away fret wear down gnaw undermine gnaw at eat into eat at decay crumble chip abrade thin take off sweep away spoil smash up scrape away scour away sap ruin nag lose erosion encroach eating away eating eat away at eat disintegrate deteriorate destroy decline corrosion collapse cleanse chip away at cause to fall cause to crumble bring down break biting-in become thin be worn away >gukuravhu

Topics erode topics

What do people use erode to talk about?
Universe, creation Water Movement of water

Flow
Physical actions Break, wear out

Damage
Universe, creation World Substance, matter

Soil, dirt

  • What words refer to soil being washed away by rain?
    erode erosion
Universe, creation Water Movement of water

Wave
States Quantity More

Decrease

Conjugation erode conjugation

How do you conjugate erode?

erode · verb

Examples erode examples

How do I use erode in a sentence?

Simple sentences

By helping an insect out of difficulty, I do nothing more than try to erode a little of the never-ending human guilt towards creation.

Movie subtitles

Look, Hawkeye, the artety can erode.
Do you ever feel as if your mind had started to erode?
Sinbad felt his fierce confidence erode. and this was enough to give the advantage. to his demonic twin.
If you continue, the car might erode parts of the road.
Erode our proud traditions.
Captain, with the deflector down, those micro-meteoroids are beginning to erode the hull.
Once it's released, it will erode their autonomic functions.
When it becomes acidic, it can erode the seals joining the conduits.
You're in danger of being erode.
And I fear that knowledge of my illness will erode hope.
Our fear of an unknown enemy must not be allowed to erode our long-cherished liberties.
Want to hop in my dune bug and erode some beach?
But water in caves doesn't only erode.
Salt water, unlike fresh water, does not erode limestone, so most sea caves are created by the mechanical pounding of the waves.
Look, Hawkeye, the artery can erode.
Rocks erode and fall.
First, we erode Mr. Tyler's will. then we program him to act on a trigger phrase.
Yeah, well, our research says that a breakwater over there might erode the beach here, drain the salt marshes.
Hot copy. We've a chance to boost our profile and erode the First Amendment.
Bush is using it to erode our constitutional protections and you're falling for it.
Inflammatory reaction could erode it into a vein, fragment gets a free ride.
A tumor could erode a blood vessel.
I am going to erode every fibre of your spirit.
However, in his time the brief tradition of tolerance for unconventional views was beginning to erode.
If we erode that in any way. well, we make the idea of suicide more acceptable. Perhaps more conceivable for the troubled teenager. or the depressed mother.
Do you have another word for these systematic attempts damage and erode the path of life envisaged by the Torah?
A tumor could erode a blood vessel. Well, so could a granuloma from tuberculosis or sarcoidosis.
Now, the surgeon is afraid that at the rate that the tumor is growing, that it will erode into the artery and cause a massive bleed. - What does that mean?
I think a lot of moments like that. really erode people's belief that anything can actually change.

News and current affairs

Suppose that as long as a version of this deal is the only game in town, the creeping physical expansion of the Israeli state and the demographic expansion of Israeli Arabs will continue to erode its foundation.
They worried that, if these problems emerged, they would derail reform measures and erode the public support needed to press on.
But WTO membership does not come at the expense of agriculture, for it promises to erode rather than reinforce the peasantry's legacy of discrimination and powerlessness.
Any government expects its popularity to erode, especially in a society with as many intractable problems as Venezuela: unemployment, crime, high infant mortality and so on.
The old Assad feared that open borders and the end of the politics of conflict might erode his one-party system.
If the US does not provide him with threats that help rally domestic support, his failure to revitalize Iran's economy will erode his standing at home.
The economic and human costs of deficit reduction in a weak economy are appalling, and the targets won't be met, either, because the spending cuts will erode the government's revenue as aggregate demand falls.
During the Cold War, the West used hard power to deter Soviet aggression, while it used soft power to erode faith in Communism behind the iron curtain.
But, without ideals, Europe's foundations will erode.
This, in turn, would further erode banks' balance sheets and constrain credit creation - the sovereign-bank doom loop that we have heard so much about in recent years.
In America, at least, 2006 is likely to be another year in which stagnant real wages freeze, or even erode, the living standards of those in the middle.
Eventually, faith in democracy and the market economy will erode, and the legitimacy of existing institutions and arrangements will be called into question.
Last but not least, makeshift solutions such as protracted wage freezes may eventually erode the quality of public services.
It was concern about the United Kingdom Independence Party's capacity to erode the Conservatives' political base that pushed Prime Minister David Cameron to commit to a referendum on the country's continued EU membership.
Ferguson believes that a doubling of public debt in the coming decade cannot erode US strength on its own, but that it could weaken a long-assumed faith in America's ability to weather any crisis.
The US is still in a position to lead the world, but, without far-sighted leadership, its relative position is likely to continue to erode.
If repeated, this pattern may erode confidence in financial markets and regulators, which could well lead to heavy-handed regulation, the expansion of the state, and retrenchment from globalization.
For China, which to some extent still depends on external markets to drive economic growth, this environment is particularly challenging - especially as currency depreciation in Europe and Japan erode export demand further.
These days, the more pervasive competitive threat comes from companies in other domains that can erode the customer value proposition after the car is sold.
Yes, drugs erode people's freedom.
Indeed, the crisis is beginning to erode the very foundations - the Franco-German and transatlantic partnerships - of a post-war European order that has ensured a period of peace and prosperity without precedent in the history of the continent.
What was not anticipated was that globalization would erode these boundaries.
Some, indeed, suggest that the EU often acts to erode the welfare state.

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