eroded; eroding
1
: to diminish or destroy by degrees:
a
: to eat into or away by slow destruction of substance (as by acid, infection, or cancer)
b
: to wear away by the action of water, wind, or glacial ice
flooding eroded the hillside
c
: to cause to deteriorate or disappear as if by eating or wearing away
inflation eroding buying power
2
: to produce or form by eroding
glaciers erode U-shaped valleys
: to undergo erosion
where the land has eroded away
Examples of erode in a Sentence
Crashing waves have eroded the cliffs along the beach.
The shoreline has eroded badly.
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The sand is eroded into curious little ditches, and there’s litter underfoot, the mummified remains of dead fish.
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Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2025
This process will slowly erode these cracks, causing the paths to change over time.
—Alec Janis, Hartford Courant, 15 Mar. 2025
As the stone erodes, metals and minerals will be picked up with the traveling water and occasionally end up in your drilled well.
—Alec Janis, Hartford Courant, 15 Mar. 2025
As water erodes fractures in the bedrock, new cracks and pathways form, changing the contaminants that are entering your well.
—Alec Janis, Hartford Courant, 15 Mar. 2025
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Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2025
This process will slowly erode these cracks, causing the paths to change over time.
—Alec Janis, Hartford Courant, 15 Mar. 2025
As the stone erodes, metals and minerals will be picked up with the traveling water and occasionally end up in your drilled well.
—Alec Janis, Hartford Courant, 15 Mar. 2025
As water erodes fractures in the bedrock, new cracks and pathways form, changing the contaminants that are entering your well.
—Alec Janis, Hartford Courant, 15 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for erode
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“Erode.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/erode. Accessed 20 Apr. 2025.
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erode
transitive verb
eroded; eroding
1
: to eat into or away by slow destruction of substance (as by acid, infection, or cancer)
acids that erode the teeth
bone eroded by cancer
2
: to remove with an abrasive
a dental tool that erodes the decayed area
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