eroded; eroding
1
: to diminish or destroy by degrees:
a
: to eat into or away by slow destruction of substance (as by acid, infection, or cancer)
b
: to wear away by the action of water, wind, or glacial ice
flooding eroded the hillside
c
: to cause to deteriorate or disappear as if by eating or wearing away
inflation eroding buying power
2
: to produce or form by eroding
glaciers erode U-shaped valleys
: to undergo erosion
where the land has eroded away
Examples of erode in a Sentence
Crashing waves have eroded the cliffs along the beach.
The shoreline has eroded badly.
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Yasmine Saad, a licensed clinical psychologist, notes that such patterns of behavior, when persistent, can erode family bonds.
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Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 5 Feb. 2025
Imposing unilateral tariffs on Canada and Mexico without exhausting legal remedies provided for under the USMCA erodes trust with key trading partners.
—Dewardric L. McNeal, CNBC, 3 Feb. 2025
That wall eroded during President Donald Trump’s first administration, when the ORR began to share identifying information about unaccompanied children and their potential sponsors with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, presaging a wave of arrests.
—Annie Waldman, ProPublica, 31 Jan. 2025
And while Nvidia's competitive moat has proved extraordinarily strong until now, there are many reasons to believe it will be eroded over time, even by AI tools developed using Nvidia chips.
—Felix Salmon, Axios, 31 Jan. 2025
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erode
transitive verb
eroded; eroding
1
: to eat into or away by slow destruction of substance (as by acid, infection, or cancer)
acids that erode the teeth
bone eroded by cancer
2
: to remove with an abrasive
a dental tool that erodes the decayed area
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