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e·rode

(ĭ-rōd′)

v. e·rod·ed, e·rod·ing, e·rodes

v.tr.

1. To wear (something) away by erosion: Waves eroded the shore.

2. To eat into or eat away the substance of: Acidic water erodes pipes. Arthritis had eroded the cartilage.

3. To make or form by wearing away: The river eroded a deep valley.

4. To cause to diminish or deteriorate: "Long enduring peace often erodes popular resolution" (C.L. Sulzberger).

v.intr.

1. To become worn or eaten away: The cliffs have eroded over the centuries.

2. To diminish or deteriorate: Public confidence in the administration eroded.

[Latin ērōdere, to gnaw off, eat away : ē-, ex-, ex- + rōdere, to gnaw; see rēd- in Indo-European roots.]

e·rod′i·bil′i·ty n.

e·rod′i·ble adj.

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erode

(ɪˈrəʊd)

1. to grind or wear down or away or become ground or worn down or away

2. to deteriorate or cause to deteriorate: jealousy eroded the relationship.

3. (Pathology) (tr; usually passive) pathol to remove (tissue) by ulceration

[C17: from Latin ērōdere, from ex-¹ + rōdere to gnaw]

eˈrodent adj, n

eˈrodible, eˈrodable adj

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e•rode

(ɪˈroʊd)

v. e•rod•ed, e•rod•ing. v.t.

1. to eat into or away; destroy by slow disintegration.

2. to form (a gully, butte, etc.) by erosion.

v.i.

3. to become eroded.

[1605–15; < Latin ērōdere=ē- e- + rōdere to gnaw]

e•rod′i•ble, adj.

e•rod`i•bil′i•ty, n.

erode

Past participle: eroded
Gerund: eroding

Imperative
erode
erode

Present
I erode
you erode
he/she/it erodes
we erode
you erode
they erode

Preterite
I eroded
you eroded
he/she/it eroded
we eroded
you eroded
they eroded

Present Continuous
I am eroding
you are eroding
he/she/it is eroding
we are eroding
you are eroding
they are eroding

Present Perfect
I have eroded
you have eroded
he/she/it has eroded
we have eroded
you have eroded
they have eroded

Past Continuous
I was eroding
you were eroding
he/she/it was eroding
we were eroding
you were eroding
they were eroding

Past Perfect
I had eroded
you had eroded
he/she/it had eroded
we had eroded
you had eroded
they had eroded

Future
I will erode
you will erode
he/she/it will erode
we will erode
you will erode
they will erode

Future Perfect
I will have eroded
you will have eroded
he/she/it will have eroded
we will have eroded
you will have eroded
they will have eroded

Future Continuous
I will be eroding
you will be eroding
he/she/it will be eroding
we will be eroding
you will be eroding
they will be eroding

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been eroding
you have been eroding
he/she/it has been eroding
we have been eroding
you have been eroding
they have been eroding

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been eroding
you will have been eroding
he/she/it will have been eroding
we will have been eroding
you will have been eroding
they will have been eroding

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been eroding
you had been eroding
he/she/it had been eroding
we had been eroding
you had been eroding
they had been eroding

Conditional
I would erode
you would erode
he/she/it would erode
we would erode
you would erode
they would erode

Past Conditional
I would have eroded
you would have eroded
he/she/it would have eroded
we would have eroded
you would have eroded
they would have eroded

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Verb	1.	erode - become ground down or deteriorate; "Her confidence eroded" eat at, gnaw at, gnaw, wear away decay, dilapidate, crumble - fall into decay or ruin; "The unoccupied house started to decay"
	2.	erode - remove soil or rock; "Rain eroded the terraces" eat away, fret damage - inflict damage upon; "The snow damaged the roof"; "She damaged the car when she hit the tree" wash - form by erosion; "The river washed a ravine into the mountainside"

erode

verb

1. disintegrate, crumble, deteriorate, corrode, break up, grind down, waste away, wear down or away By 1980, Miami beach had all but totally eroded.

2. destroy, consume, spoil, crumble, eat away, corrode, break up, grind down, abrade, wear down or away Once exposed, soil is quickly eroded by wind and rain.

3. weaken, destroy, undermine, diminish, impair, lessen, wear away His fumbling of the issue of reform has eroded his authority.

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erode

verb

To consume gradually, as by chemical reaction or friction:

bite, corrode, eat, gnaw, wear, wear away.

Translations

يَحِتُّ، يُفَتِّتُ، يَتَآكَل

erodereudhule

erodierenzerfressen

corroer desgastar erosionar mermar reducir

ronger

erodálkimar

veîra, sverfa, eyîa

erodere erosione

erozijaėstigraužti

grauztizskalotsaēst

erodere

erodovať

aşın mak

侵蚀

erode

[ɪˈrəʊd]

A. VT

1. (lit) (Geol) → erosionar; [acid] → corroer

2. (fig) [+ confidence, power, authority] → mermar; [+ support, rights] → reducir
inflation has eroded the value of their savings → la inflación ha mermado el valor de sus ahorros

B. VI

1. (Geol) → erosionarse

2. (fig) [confidence] → mermarse; [support] → disminuir
support for his party is eroding → el apoyo a su partido está disminuyendo

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erode

[ɪˈrəʊd]

vt (= wear away) [+ soil, rock] → éroder; [+ metal] → ronger

(= destroy) [+ authority, freedom] → rogner

(= wear away) [rock, soil] → s'éroder

(= disappear) [authority, confidence] → s'érodererogenous zone [ɪˈrɒdʒənəszəʊn] n → zone f érogène

erode

vt (glacier, water, sea) → auswaschen, erodieren (spec); (acid) → ätzen; (rust) → wegfressen, anfressen; (fig) confidence, power, values, beliefs → untergraben; authority → unterminieren; differentials → aushöhlen; value → abtragen, untergraben

vi (value) → abgetragen werden

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erode

[ɪˈrəʊd] vt (Geol) → erodere; (metal) (fig) → corrodere

erode

(iˈrəud) verb

to eat or wear away (metals etc); to destroy gradually. Acids erode certain metals; Water has eroded the rock; The individual's right to privacy is being eroded.

eˈrosion (-ʒən) noun

erode

vt erosionar

References in periodicals archive ?

En el suelo natural se evidencia un suelo no erodable debido a la escasa variacion de los caudales de carga y descarga para una misma cabeza (figura 11), lo que puede estar relacionado con la alta presencia del mineral de caolinita que es estable en presencia de agua [31].

Cambio en las propiedades geotecnicas de un suelo sometido a ignicion en laboratorio/Change in Geotechnical Properties of a Soil Subject to Laboratory Ignition/Mudancas nas propriedades geotecnicas de um solo submetido a ignicao em laboratorio

Girasis et al., "Value of the SYNTAX score for risk assessment in the all-comers population of the randomized multicenter LEADERS (Limus Eluted from A Durable versus ERodable Stent coating) trial," Journal of the American College of Cardiology, vol.

Prognostic Value of SYNTAX Score II in Patients with Acute Coronary Syndromes Referred for Invasive Management: A Subanalysis from the SPUM and COMFORTABLE AMI Cohorts

From the submissions in the category "digital medium," the video "Erodable high performance ceramics for mold inserts" from Leroxid emerged as the winner.

Automotive innovation on two continents: the SPE Automotive Division and SPE Central Europe Section celebrated major plastics innovations in 2015

The application of fibre mulch for protection of erodable soil has been demonstrated for straw, wood chips, sawdust and synthetic products, including erosion control geonets, geotextiles, blankets and geomattings (Curnoe et al.

WOOD PROCESSING BY-PRODUCTS TREATED WITH THE LIGNIN-BASED CONDITIONER AS MULCH FOR SOIL PROTECTION

But it's often other human activities--deforestation, growing crops on steep erodable land, building houses (often the homes of the very rich or the very poor) on vulnerable sites, construction of earth-destabilizing roads or dams, irrigating in the wrong place--that prime hillsides for collapse.

Defend against natural disasters? Stop making them

While large sections of the Baltic Sea coasts are bedrock-based and extremely stable, the southern and eastern coasts of this basin mostly consist of relatively soft and easily erodable sediment.

Linking wave loads with the intensity of erosion along the coasts of Latvia/ Lainekoormuse ja rannikuprotsesside intensiivsuse seosest Laanemere idarannikul

2001: Human impact on erodable phosphorus and eutrophication: a global perspective.--BioScience 51(3): 227-234.

Managing for resilience

Rainfall is heaviest in eastern Nebraska, soils are highly erodable, and the region is intensively farmed, often to the edge of stream banks, resulting in significant erosion of topsoil (Clausen and Havlik, 1994; Hoke, 1994b, 1996, 2004, 2005b).

The freshwater mussels (mollusca: bivalvia: unionoida) of Nebraska

Dissolvable films and Natural and synthetic Polymer coatings erodable PSAs polysaccharides, designed to erode at hydrophilic predetermined rates copolymers when in contact with biological fluids.

Customized adhesive and coating technologies enable novel drug delivery methods

Bedforms are wave-like geometric configurations of the water-sediment interface that are formed by fluid flow over an erodable granular bed (Allen 1985).

International year of planet earth 5. Applications of seafloor mapping on the Canadian Atlantic continental shelf

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