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
The 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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Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 11 Feb. 2026
But multiple flood events over the decades have continued to erode the older infrastructure, leaving parts of it unsupported.
—Dante Motley, Austin American Statesman, 11 Feb. 2026
Advertisement But even as the partisan clashes intensified, lawmakers in both parties acknowledged that public tolerance for a DHS shutdown could erode quickly once the effects reach travelers and communities.
—Nik Popli, Time, 11 Feb. 2026
At that time, city officials acknowledged that residents already felt financially squeezed, and a plethora of taxes or bonds from other entities appearing on the ballot could further erode support for a parcel tax.
—Devan Patel, Mercury News, 11 Feb. 2026
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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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