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erode
/ɪˈɹoʊd/
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What does erode mean?
verb
- To wear away by abrasion, corrosion, or chemical reaction.
- (figuratively) To destroy gradually by an ongoing process.
proper noun
- A district of Tamil Nadu, India.
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proper noun
- The capital city of Erode district, Tamil Nadu, India.
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Secure in its grip, these are used as graving-tools to erode its bed.
This leads only to inflated expectations, to reduced individual effort, and to a disappointment and frustration that erode confidence both in what government can do and in what people can do.
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The biggest danger is that soaring unemployment in eastern Germany, which could climb to the 30 to 40% range, could touch off labor disputes or renewed mass relocation to western Germany and erode investor confidence in eastern Germany.
But the upper bowlder clay no less conclusively shows that once more the climate became cold, and ice overflowed all the lowlands and buried under a new accumulation of bowlder clay such parts of the old land surface as it did not erode.