EGAVE

corrode

About 0.25 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. verb To eat away bit by bit; to wear away or diminish by gradually separating or destroying small particles of, as by action of a strong acid or a caustic alkali.
  2. verb To consume; to wear away; to prey upon; to impair.
    My morale is being corroded day by day.
  3. verb To have corrosive action; to be subject to corrosion.

Similar words

eat rust erode corrupt eat away eat away at corrade wear canker wear away

Often followed by

the and in or at metals metal more it

Word family

corroded corrodes corrodible corroding

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