to erode
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4.2
- verb
- /ɪˈroʊd/
:
erosionar
- When vegetation is removed, torrential rain erodes soil, reducing its fertility and filling rivers with mud.
- eroded soil
- eroded shoreline
- eroding bluff
Places pushed up like mountains to erode and weather.
- Places pushed up like mountains to erode and weather.
- That's how the canyons had been eroded overtime.
- If you need to build new houses inland because your coastlines are eroding, how much money do you have left for breeding new crops?
- So mountains are built up and they erode away by water and rain and ice and so forth, and they become grains of sand.
- The benefit of no till farming is we don't erode our soils, but science is showing that it doesn't really capture a whole lot more carbon.
- Over time, the weather starts to erode the stone in beautiful and unique ways that make that castle unlike any other castle in the world, because it's yours.
- They the grains are two rounds after being eroded by the desert winds.
- It was some kind of plasterish thing was really eroded by the water on her side.
- That's what eroded the foundation and it was very important to me.
- The holiest presence is in the Western Wall, which is eroding in, in, in, in, in, in ancestry.
Examples
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These floods also erode the coastline, allowing later storms to wipe away land altogether.
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When water flows rapidly, it can erode the riverbank, causing it to collapse.
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So like I was saying, not all rock layers erode equally.
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Over time, the weather starts to erode the stone in beautiful and unique ways that make that castle unlike any other castle in the world, because it's yours.
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Rocks erode and fall.
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They are eroding our land from under us, stealing it back into the ocean.
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The soils in tropical forests are easily eroded once the tree cover is removed.
Academic text (1990) -
Thus, shorelines may eventually erode beneath such structures, leaving them stranded in the surf zone.
Academic text (1991) -
If you need to build new houses inland because your coastlines are eroding, how much money do you have left for breeding new crops?
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The old man's stone was joined at the base by an eroded rectangular slab of granite.
Fiction book (1993)
Synonyms
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5.1
To wear away soil and rock by wind or water
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6.0
Break into smaller parts by losing energy in a physical process, for example in an atom
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6.8
Remove the ground or support under something so it becomes weak
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4.5
Slowly wears away rock and soil by wind or water
Wear away the surface of something by rubbing or scraping
To wear a surface down by rubbing
To wear away a surface slowly by rubbing
Antonyms
How Eroded
Surface Forms
Etymology
Erode comes from the Latin rodere, which means 'to gnaw'. Imagine water or wind slowly 'gnawing' at rock or soil, and that image explains why erode means to wear away land or rock over time.