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UK
/ɪɹˈəʊdɪŋ/
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[ US /iˈɹoʊdɪŋ, ɪˈɹoʊdɪŋ/ ]
[ US /iˈɹoʊdɪŋ, ɪˈɹoʊdɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
- (geology) the mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles washing over it)
How To Use eroding In A Sentence
- Jealousy and suspicion are eroding our friendship.
- The oldest fossils of parrotfishes, including one eroding species, are all of Miocene age.
- For years now, human remains have become exposed in the eroding sand-dunes and it was not unusual to encounter a grinning skull when walking along a particular stretch.
- Regarding globalism as an alien and godless ideology engulfing their country, they fear that transnational forces are relentlessly eroding the traditional American way of life.
- Here in England (well, Britain actually) the government is slowly eroding our traditional units and forcing metrication on us. NASA Finds The Metric System Too Hard To Implement for Constellation - NASA Watch
- Not quite six feet tall, he had probably been handsome until something ugly inside reached maximum levels and seeped out, eroding him until only an expression of scorn remained. Arcane Circle
- The neutron bomb was not only squelched, but all development stopped as a matter of policy because it was even worse than low-yield nuclear warheads in eroding the nuclear firebreak.
- It could be that the action was minor but sustained over a long period of time, thereby eroding good faith and confidence in collective bargaining.
- While stock and bond prices are attaining new record quotations and prices, the productive basis of an economy may be eroding and vice versa.
- Trees and forests had been cut down to provide fuel and even the most fertile soils were eroding at an alarming rate.