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US
/ɪˈɹoʊʒən/
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[ UK /ɪɹˈəʊʒən/ ]
[ UK /ɪɹˈəʊʒən/ ]
NOUN
- (geology) the mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles washing over it)
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a gradual decline of something
after the accounting scandal there was an erosion of confidence in the auditors - erosion by chemical action
- condition in which the earth's surface is worn away by the action of water and wind
How To Use erosion In A Sentence
- The undulating holloway, which has itself sunk through the steady erosion of cartwheels and hooves up to fifteen feet beneath the hillside, translates you from the present into an earlier era when John Nash carved out his woodcuts in English boxwood at the kitchen table under a single lamp-bulb and cultivated the half-wild garden. Wildwood
- Exact positions of the 120 pegs will depend on the state of the beach due to the recent coastal erosion.
- Marginal and fragile lands cleared for export crop production rapidly become infertile and erosion prone.
- They also deprive Australian livestock of food by scouring the cultivated rangelands, which also facilitates erosion.
- Soil conservation is intended to kurb erosion.
- The study area is near the southern margin of the coal field, a structural boundary, not an erosional edge of the palaeoswamp.
- The escarpments, however, are due in a large degree to the erosion of weaker rock on the downthrow side. The Elements of Geology
- Natural deterrents against sea erosion (mangroves, sandbanks, reefs etc.) have been depleted to such extents that their revival cannot be considered a viable plan to counter sea disasters.
- Located on a narrow peninsula, Yehliu features special terrain and geologic landscape from wave erosion , rock weathering, and crustal movement.
- Erosion has truncated the ridges of the mountains