Definitions for erosive

erosive e·ro·sive

Spelling: [ih-roh-siv]
IPA: /ɪˈroʊ sɪv/

Erosive is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 139 anagrams from letters in erosive (eeiorsv).

Definitions for erosive

adjective

  1. serving to erode; causing erosion.

Origin of erosive

1820-30; Latin ērōs(us) (see erose) + -ive

Examples for erosive

The erosive action of the sea, from our present point of view, is of comparatively little importance.

There can be no doubt, then, that glaciers have an erosive action, and therefore must be regarded as agents of denudation.

It is as if these striking forms were inherent in the rocks, waiting for the erosive forces to liberate them.

She set her face determinedly against the erosive impatience of despair.

In this excursion only the marginal portion of the glacier would do erosive work.

They often occur in cavities which have been formed by the erosive action of acidulated water, in the way described in pars.

They have been robbed by the erosive action of waves and running water.

The laws of gravitation, the erosive powers of water, the effects of frost, are just the same at wholesale as they are at retail.

Vast portions of the mountain have already been carried away by the erosive forces of ice and running water.

Then the erosive waste exceeds the growth by up-bulging, and mountain decay begins.

Word Value for erosive
Scrable

10

Words with friends

11

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