Definitions for erode

erode e·rode

Spelling: [ih-rohd]
IPA: /ɪˈroʊd/

Erode is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 49 anagrams from letters in erode (deeor).

Definitions for erode

verb (used with object)

  1. to eat into or away; destroy by slow consumption or disintegration: Synonyms: corrode, waste, ravage, spoil. Antonyms: strengthen, reinforce.
  2. to form (a gully, butte, or the like) by erosion.

verb (used without object)

  1. to become eroded.

Origin of erode

1605-15; Latin ērōdere, equivalent to ē- e-1 + rōdere to gnaw

Examples for erode

This limit of the level of the sea beneath which they cannot erode is known as baselevel.

Alternatively, passing up a shot could allow an enemy to escape, kill U.S. citizens, and erode U.S. power.

Admittedly, a lot of undeserved cultural authority will have to erode before this idealization can materialize.

That started to erode after the two officers were assaulted last week.

Failure to secure their quick release can erode voter confidence and advertise the impotence of government.

There has not been time to erode them away since the Pleistocene glaciation.

It serves as a potent reminder that the cost in lives of one war can erode the will of a people to fight another.

It has been, and is being, created by sediments from the many torrents that erode the interior mountains.

To erode a stratum 5000 feet thick will require at this rate thirty million years.

Secure in its grip, these are used as graving-tools to erode its bed.

Word Value for erode
Scrable

6

Words with friends

6

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