erode

Verb

Meaning

To eat into or away; to corrode; as, canker erodes the flesh.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

gnaw fret wear away eat away gnaw at eat at whittle reduce damage wear decline destroy decrease eat waste
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Antonyms

make cause create develop bring build
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Hypernyms

damage decay crumble dilapidate

Hyponyms

wash

Related terms

erosion

Derivatives

eroded eroding

Anagrams

doree

Examples

God 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

Close letter words and terms

Erny ero-guro erodable eroded erodent eroder