Dictionary
e•rode
Pronunciation: (i-rōd'), [key]
—v., e•rod•ed, e•rod•ing.
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v.t.
1. to eat into or away; destroy by slow consumption or disintegration:
Battery acid had eroded the engine. Inflation erodes the value of our money.
2. to form (a gully, butte, or the like) by erosion.
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v.i.
to become eroded.
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