corroding

[ kuh-rohd ]

verbwear away; eat away

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Word Origin & History

c.1400, from Old French corroder (14c.) or directly from Latin corrodere "to gnaw to bits, wear away," from com-, intensive prefix (see com-), + rodere "to gnaw" (see rodent). Related: Corroded; corroding.

Example Sentences forcorroding

With the farmer there are no all-absorbing cares, no corroding anxieties, no vitiating excitement.

She had a corroding sensation in her throat as though she tasted metal.

Fear, corroding, soul-destroying fear, had found a footing there.

Only the cold, corroding uncertainty, the growing apprehension.

It had been splashed from the tank and, where it had spilled, metal was corroding rapidly.

The atmosphere being too corroding I decided to bury them underground.

Was I, too, become impregnated with the corroding influence of my environment?

For five years he had lived in a fool's paradise, a corroding dream.

He acted like a man who had a corroding sorrow in his heart.

I felt it corroding my thoughts and destroying my spirits, and yet I kept still.

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