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Corrode :: Corrode (v. i.) To have corrosive action; to be subject to corrosion.

Rust :: Rust (v. t.) To cause to contract rust; to corrode with rust; to affect with rust of any kind.

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

Erode :: Erode (v. t.) To eat into or away; to corrode; as, canker erodes the flesh..

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..

Canker :: Canker (v. t.) To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume.

Begnaw :: Begnaw (v. t.) To gnaw; to eat away; to corrode.

Corroded :: Corroded (imp. & p. p.) of Corrod.

#NAME? :: -ent () An adjective suffix signifying action or being; as, corrodent, excellent, emergent, continent, quiescent. See -ant..

Incorrodible :: Incorrodible (a.) Incapable of being corroded, consumed, or eaten away..

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.

Caustic :: Caustic (a.) Any substance or means which, applied to animal or other organic tissue, burns, corrodes, or destroys it by chemical action; an escharotic..

Exulcerate :: Exulcerate (v. t. & i.) To corrode; to fret; to chafe; to inflame.

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..

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..

Gnaw :: Gnaw (v. t.) To corrode; to fret away; to waste.

Corrodiate :: Corrodiate (v. t.) To eat away by degrees; to corrode.

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..

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.

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