Definition of corrode

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Corrode (v. t.) To consume; to wear away; to prey upon; to impair.

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Incorrodible :: Incorrodible (a.) Incapable of being corroded, consumed, or eaten away..
Rust :: Rust (v. t.) To cause to contract rust; to corrode with rust; to affect with rust of any kind.
Begnaw :: Begnaw (v. t.) To gnaw; to eat away; to corrode.
Cautery :: Cautery (n.) A burning or searing, as of morbid flesh, with a hot iron, or by application of a caustic that will burn, corrode, or destroy animal tissue..
Eat :: Eat (v. t.) To corrode, as metal, by rust; to consume the flesh, as a cancer; to waste or wear away; to destroy gradually; to cause to disappear..
Corrodible :: Corrodible (a.) Capable of being corroded; corrosible.
Corroded :: Corroded (imp. & p. p.) of Corrod.
Etch :: Etch (v. t.) To produce, as figures or designs, on mental, glass, or the like, by means of lines or strokes eaten in or corroded by means of some strong acid..
Erode :: Erode (v. t.) To eat into or away; to corrode; as, canker erodes the flesh..
Corrodiate :: Corrodiate (v. t.) To eat away by degrees; to corrode.
#NAME? :: -ent () An adjective suffix signifying action or being; as, corrodent, excellent, emergent, continent, quiescent. See -ant..
Corrode :: Corrode (v. i.) To have corrosive action; to be subject to corrosion.
Corrodent :: Corrodent (n.) Anything that corrodes.
Stopple :: Stopping-out (n.) A method adopted in etching, to keep the acid from those parts which are already sufficiently corroded, by applying varnish or other covering matter with a brush, but allowing the acid to act on the other parts..
Exulcerate :: Exulcerate (v. t. & i.) To corrode; to fret; to chafe; to inflame.
Canker :: Canker (v. t.) To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume.
Gnaw :: Gnaw (v. t.) To corrode; to fret away; to waste.
Corrode :: Corrode (v. t.) To eat away by degrees; to wear away or diminish by gradually separating or destroying small particles of, as by action of a strong acid or a caustic alkali..
Iron-sick :: Iron-sick (a.) Having the ironwork loose or corroded; -- said of a ship when her bolts and nails are so eaten with rust that she has become leaky.
Canker :: Canker (n.) Anything which corrodes, corrupts, or destroy..
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