erosion

Academic Word List, sublist 9.

About 9.32 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The result of having been worn away or eroded, as by a glacier on rock or the sea on a cliff face.
2. noun The changing of a surface by mechanical action, friction, thermal expansion contraction, or impact.
3. noun The gradual loss of something as a result of an ongoing process.

   the erosion of a person's trust

4. noun Destruction by abrasive action of fluids.
5. noun One of two fundamental operations in morphological image processing from which all other morphological operations are derived.
6. noun Loss of tooth enamel due to non-bacteriogenic chemical processes.
7. noun A shallow ulceration or lesion, usually involving skin or epithelial tissue.
8. noun In morphology, a basic operation (denoted ⊖); see Erosion (morphology).

Similar words

corrosion corroding wearing eating away eroding wearing away soil sedimentation miner drain

Often followed by

of and in is control by has on or

Word family

erode eroded erodes eroding erosional erosionally erosions