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; to wear away; to fret; to consume.
  • verb geology To erode, as the bed of a stream.
  • verb obsolete To scrape or rake together; to accumulate 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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  • 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

  • Nice work.

    January 23, 2015

  • Thank you, bilby.

    January 24, 2015