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verb (used with object)
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.
verb (used without object)
3.
to become eroded.
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Eroded
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Related forms
e·rod·i·bil·i·ty, e·rod·a·bil·i·ty, noun
non·e·rod·ed, adjective
non·e·rod·ing, adjective
un·e·rod·a·ble, adjective
EXPANDSynonyms
1. corrode, waste, ravage, spoil.
1. corrode, waste, ravage, spoil.
Antonyms
1. strengthen, reinforce.
1. strengthen, reinforce.
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Medical Dictionary
erode e·rode (ĭ-rōd')
v. e·rod·ed, e·rod·ing, e·rodes
To wear away by or as if by abrasion.
To eat into; ulcerate.
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