Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To destroy a metal or alloy gradually, especially by oxidation or chemical action.
- intransitive verb To impair steadily; deteriorate.
- intransitive verb To be eaten or worn away.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Literally, to eat or gnaw away gradually; hence, to wear away, diminish, or disintegrate (a body) by gradually separating small particles from (it), especially by the action of a chemical agent: as, nitric acid corrodes copper: often used figuratively.
- Synonyms To canker, gnaw, waste.
- To gnaw; eat or wear away gradually.
- Figuratively, to become gradually impaired or deteriorated; waste away.
- To act by or as if by corrosion or canker, or a process of eating or wearing away.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To eat away by degrees; to wear away or diminish by gradually separating or destroying small particles of, as by action of a strong acid or a caustic alkali.
- transitive verb To consume; to wear away; to prey upon; to impair.
- intransitive verb To have corrosive action; to be subject to corrosion.
- intransitive verb lead sufficiently pure to be used in making white lead by a process of corroding.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
eat away by degrees; towear away ordiminish by gradually separating or destroying small particles of, as by action of a strongacid or a causticalkali . - verb transitive To
consume ; towear away ; toprey upon; toimpair . - verb intransitive To have
corrosive action; to be subject tocorrosion .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb become destroyed by water, air, or a corrosive such as an acid
- verb cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Corrosion Control All materials corrode, which is to say every substance eventually changes from one form to another through chemical reactions.
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Corrosion Control All materials corrode, which is to say every substance eventually changes from one form to another through chemical reactions.
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Corrosion Control All materials corrode, which is to say every substance eventually changes from one form to another through chemical reactions.
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Corrosion Control All materials corrode, which is to say every substance eventually changes from one form to another through chemical reactions.
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Corrosion Control All materials corrode, which is to say every substance eventually changes from one form to another through chemical reactions.
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Corrosion Control All materials corrode, which is to say every substance eventually changes from one form to another through chemical reactions.
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Corrosion Control All materials corrode, which is to say every substance eventually changes from one form to another through chemical reactions.
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Corrosion Control All materials corrode, which is to say every substance eventually changes from one form to another through chemical reactions.
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The horror you feel at "moral decay" is, to the Elders of Sodom, quite self-evidentally an affective defense mechanism, designed to function as a barrier to anything that might "corrode" your convictions.
An Open Letter to John C. Wright Hal Duncan 2009
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The horror you feel at "moral decay" is, to the Elders of Sodom, quite self-evidentally an affective defense mechanism, designed to function as a barrier to anything that might "corrode" your convictions.
Archive 2009-08-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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