Verb
To eat into or away; to corrode; as, canker erodes the flesh.
Source: Webster's dictionaryGod looked down on this country because this country was founded on the rock and that rock was our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And when the storms came and the rains came, the rock, it did not move. But over the last 15 or 20 years, something began to erode. Bob Riley
The Holocaust also shows us how a combination of events and attitudes can erode a society's democratic values. Tim Holden
Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid. Ugo Betti
In life there are certain sores which, like a kind of canker, slowly erode the soul in solitude. Sadegh Hedayat
If the evolutionist is going to say that we have 140 million years since the time of the dinosaurs, that is enough time for the earth to erode away ten times. Kent Hovind
Quiet streams erode the shore. Yiddish Proverb