eroded; eroding
1
: to diminish or destroy by degrees:
a
: to eat into or away by slow destruction of substance (as by acid, infection, or cancer)
b
: to wear away by the action of water, wind, or glacial ice
flooding eroded the hillside
c
: to cause to deteriorate or disappear as if by eating or wearing away
inflation eroding buying power
2
: to produce or form by eroding
glaciers erode U-shaped valleys
: to undergo erosion
where the land has eroded away
Examples of erode in a Sentence
Crashing waves have eroded the cliffs along the beach.
The shoreline has eroded badly.
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Cristina Larue, Arkansas Online, 16 Sep. 2025
Price increases may start to weigh on consumer spending, eroding the case for companies’ sales growth.
—David Goldman, CNN Money, 15 Sep. 2025
Today, social media is more likely to be the source of misinformation, disinformation, deepening political divides, and eroding public trust in everything from elections to public health.
—Jeremy H. Gottschalk, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
High borrowing costs, a problem across much of the continent, leave less room for investment in education, health, and social services, while eroding funds required to build infrastructure needed to stimulate economic growth.
—Preeti Jha, semafor.com, 15 Sep. 2025
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erode
transitive verb
eroded; eroding
1
: to eat into or away by slow destruction of substance (as by acid, infection, or cancer)
acids that erode the teeth
bone eroded by cancer
2
: to remove with an abrasive
a dental tool that erodes the decayed area
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