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corrode

verb
/kəˈɹəʊd/UK/kəˈɹoʊd/US

Etymology

From Middle English corrōden, that borrowed from Old French corroder or directly from Latin corrōdere (“to gnaw”), from con- (“completely”) + rōdere (“to gnaw”).

  1. derived from corrōdere
  2. derived from corroder
  3. inherited from corrōden

Definitions

  1. To eat away bit by bit

    To eat away bit by bit; to wear away or diminish by gradually separating or destroying small particles of, as by action of a strong acid or a caustic alkali.

  2. To consume

    To consume; to wear away; to prey upon; to impair.

    • My morale is being corroded day by day.

  3. To have corrosive action

    To have corrosive action; to be subject to corrosion.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at corrode. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01corrode02wear03erode04corrosion05corroding

A definitional loop anchored at corrode. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at corrode

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA