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/ɪrˈoʊd/ /ˈɪroʊd/ Listen

verb

Erode v. t. (past & past part. eroded; pres. part. eroding)

To eat into or away; to corrode; as, canker erodes the flesh. "The blood... erodes the vessels." "The smaller charge is more apt to... erode the gun."

(Geol. & Phys. Geog.)

(a)

To wear away; as, streams and glaciers erode the land.

(b)

To produce by erosion, or wearing away; as, glaciers erode U-shaped valleys.

To reduce or lessen as if by eroding; as, a politician's base of support is eroded by evidence of corruption; the buying power of the dollar is eroded by inflation. (fig.)

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Etymology of 'Erode'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... from one streete to an other."[790] In some cases the scaffolds were not so high, and boards made a communication between the raised platform and the ground; a horseman could thus ride up the scaffold: "Here Erode ragis in the pagond and in the ...

— A Literary History of the English People - From the Origins to the Renaissance • Jean Jules Jusserand