Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive & intransitive verb To erode or be eroded by abrasion.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To scrape or rake together; accumulate laboriously.
- In geology, to abrade and remove (rock), as by running streams charged with grit.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To gnaw into; to wear away; to fret; to consume.
- transitive verb (Geol.) To erode, as the bed of a stream. See
Corrosion .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To
gnaw into; towear away ; tofret ; toconsume . - verb geology To
erode , as the bed of astream . - verb obsolete To
scrape or rake together; toaccumulate laboriously .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb wear away
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Latin corrādere, to scrape together : com-, com- + rādere, to scrape; see rēd- in Indo-European roots.]
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qms commented on the word corrade
When Nature is miffed she corrodes.
If she really is pissed she erodes.
Her wrath is displayed
When you see her corrade
But at peak of her pique she explodes.
January 23, 2015
bilby commented on the word corrade
Nice work.
January 23, 2015
qms commented on the word corrade
Thank you, bilby.
January 24, 2015