Definitions for corrodes

corrodes cor·rode

Spelling: [kuh-rohd]
IPA: /kəˈroʊd/

Corrodes is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 182 anagrams from letters in corrodes (cdeoorrs).

Definitions for corrodes

verb (used with object)

  1. to eat or wear away gradually as if by gnawing, especially by chemical action.
  2. to impair; deteriorate:

verb (used without object)

  1. to become corroded.

Origin of corrodes

1350-1400; Middle English (Middle French) Latin corrōdere to gnaw to pieces, equivalent to cor- cor- + rōdere to gnaw; akin to rodent

Examples for corrodes

This neutralized flux will not corrode metal as will the ordinary acid.

It would be tempting, at this point, to say that the Internet will corrode religious authority and usher in the Great Secular Age.

His limbs lost their flexibility, and some of his wiring started to corrode.

Throwing hot fat into your trash can will melt the bag, and pouring it down the sink will corrode the pipes.

Salt solutions, such as sea water, corrode the metal rapidly.

So tallow and the like should not be placed where they can corrode iron or steel.

Put vaseline on the wire so the fumes of gas will not corrode it.

The working surfaces require to be of brass, so that they will not corrode.

Such a mixture would, in all probability, corrode sheet-iron.

They can corrode through whatever human tissue they contact if swallowed or stuck into an orifice, sometimes in a matter of hours.

Word Value for corrodes
Scrable

10

Words with friends

11

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