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English
Etymology
From French éroder, from Latin ērōdō.
Pronunciation
Verb
erode (third-person singular simple present erodes, present participle eroding, simple past and past participle eroded)
- To wear away by abrasion, corrosion or chemical reaction.
The cliff is gradually being eroded by the waves.
- (figurative) To destroy gradually by an ongoing process.
to erode a person's trust
to erode society's moral
Related terms
Translations
To wear away by abrasion, corrosion or chemical reaction
- Belarusian: эрадзі́раваць impf or pf (eradzíravacʹ)
- Bulgarian: еродирам (bg) (erodiram), разяждам (bg) (razjaždam)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 侵蚀 (zh) (qīnshí), 受腐蚀
- Danish: erodere (da)
- Dutch: afslijten (nl), uitslijten (nl), verweren (nl), eroderen (nl), corroderen (nl), aantasten (nl), aanvreten (nl), uitbijten (nl), inbijten (nl)
- Finnish: kuluttaa (fi), syövyttää (fi), jäytää (fi)
- French: éroder (fr)
- German: erodieren (de)
- Italian: erodere (it), corrodere (it), rodere (it)
- Maori: ngāhorohoro, weku (physically by stream or water action)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: erodere
- Nynorsk: erodera, erodere
- Portuguese: erodir (pt)
- Russian: эроди́ровать (ru) impf or pf (erodírovatʹ)
- Spanish: erosionar (es), corroer (es)
- Swedish: erodera (sv)
- Ukrainian: еродува́ти impf (eroduváty)
- Yiddish: אַוועקשווענקען (avekshvenken)
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Anagrams
Italian
Verb
erode
- third-person singular present indicative of erodere
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
ērōde
- second-person singular present active imperative of ērōdō
Portuguese
Verb
erode
- inflection of erodir:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative