Thesaurus / eroding
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synonyms for eroding
- collapsing
- crumbling
- deteriorating
- decomposing
- disintegrating
- oxidizing
- rusting
- spoiling
- breaking down
- breaking up
- in ruins
- falling to pieces
- wasting away
- wearing away
- crumbling
- crunching
- crushing
- disintegrating
- grating
- milling
- powdering
- rubbing
- scraping
- shivering
- smashing
- bone-crushing
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How to use eroding in a sentence
These materials, driven along by the stream, become eroding tools of very considerable energy.
OUTLINES OF THE EARTH'S HISTORYNATHANIEL SOUTHGATE SHALERIt is now known that cirques are produced primarily by the eroding action of the ice masses embedded in them.
MOUNT RAINIERVARIOUSAt the falls the river has several times changed its course in eroding first one soft spot, then another.
ACROSS ICELANDWILLIAM BISIKEROn this incline the water became a powerful eroding agent, and finally cut its channel to its present depth.
HOURS OF EXERCISE IN THE ALPSJOHN TYNDALLIt is a kind of clay on which the eroding power of water has little effect.
A POPULAR ACCOUNT OF DR. LIVINGSTONE'S EXPEDITION TO THE ZAMBESI AND ITS TRIBUTARIESDAVID LIVINGSTONEThe larva enters, and works downward; first consuming the bark, but afterwards eroding the wood also.
AMERICAN POMOLOGYJ. A. WARDERThe eroding power of ice is determined by its thickness, that is to say, by its weight.
YOUR NATIONAL PARKSENOS A. MILLSOn this incline the water became a powerful eroding agent, and finally cut the channel to its present depth.
FRAGMENTS OF SCIENCE, V. 1-2JOHN TYNDALLThe whiskey became lost to view, and went eroding its way through the dust these poor fellows had swallowed.
THE OXFORD BOOK OF AMERICAN ESSAYSVARIOUSBut he knew that they were only a stopgap, only a temporarily shoring of a constantly-eroding dam.
THE DUELING MACHINEBENJAMIN WILLIAM BOVAWORDS RELATED TO ERODING
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.