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erosion

noun as in deterioration; wearing away

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More than $40 trillion of retirement savings is at risk of erosion if inflation returns.

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A ProPublica-Texas Tribune investigation found that the Rio Grande Valley project suffered from major erosion just months after it was finished.

A ProPublica-Tribune investigation found that the Rio Grande Valley project suffered from major erosion just months after it was finished.

The research team examined 10,276 individual valleys found in 66 valley networks on Mars, using custom-built algorithms to group them and infer what kind of erosion processes formed them.

Additionally, over the last 20 million years, the building of the Himalayas, Andes, Alps and other mountains has more than doubled erosion rates, boosting weathering.

Focus on the gays—not on the economy, the erosion of civil society, or the lack of democracy.

The more socially conservative libertarian-conservatives worry about family cohesion and erosion of religious belief.

And the health law might not prohibit it, opening a door to potential erosion of employer-based coverage.

While not as bad as some environmentalists have expected, there is beach erosion.

The result is a continual erosion of the business—fewer subscriptions sold, fewer print ads sold, even as costs rise annually.

Nowhere perhaps has the great water erosion of bygone aeons wrought more grotesquely and fantastically than in the Moqui basin.

This erosion had been carried along the cañon on an even line of altitude as far as the softer layer extended.

On steep slopes a certain number of trees must be left to protect the watershed and to prevent the erosion of the soil.

Its substance is well preserved; the surface was once highly polished, but now is pitted by erosion and discolored by age.

Sastrugi, only six inches high, seen on the 26th, showed the effects of wind-erosion exquisitely.

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On this page you'll find 28 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to erosion, such as: corrosion, decrease, destruction, disintegration, abrasion, and attrition.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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