Corrode

Definition: Corrode

Corrode

Verb

1. Cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid; "The acid corroded the metal"; "The steady dripping of water rusted the metal stopper in the sink".

2. Become destroyed by water, air, or an etching chemical such as an acid; "The metal corroded"; "The pipes rusted".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "corrode" was first used: 14th century. (references)

Note: Corrode \Cor*rode"\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Corroded; Corroding.]. (Websters 1913)

Mining

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Synonyms: Corrode

Calefaction

Burn, inflame, roast, toast, fry, grill, singe, parch, bake, torrefy, scorch; brand, cauterize, sear, burn in; corrode, char, calcine, incinerate; smelt, scorify; reduce to ashes; burn to a cinder; commit to the flames, consign to the flames.

Deterioration

Blight, rot; corrode, erode; wear away, wear out; gnaw, gnaw at the root of; sap, mine, undermine, shake, sap the foundations of, break up; disorganize, dismantle, dismast; destroy.

Pain

Sicken, disgust, revolt, nauseate, disenchant, repel, offend, shock, stink in the nostrils; go against the stomach, turn the stomach; make one sick, set the teeth on edge, go against the grain, grate on the ear; stick in one's throat, stick in one's gizzard; rankle, gnaw, corrode, horrify, appal, appall, freeze the blood; make the flesh creep, make the hair stand on end; make the blood curdle, make the blood run cold; make one shudder.

Crosswords: Corrode

French (corrodes).

Music

• Corrode (reference)

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Afrikaans

aantas. (various references)

Albanian

prish (alloy, annul, baffle, blast, blow, botch, break, cancel, collapse, consume, corrupt, damn, darken, debase, debauch, deface, deflower, denounce, deprave, derogate, destroy, deteriorate, disarrange, disestablish, dissipate, dissolve, fester, fritter, frustrate, go, gum up, infringe, injure, mammock, mess, misguide, misspend, nip, obliterate, pervert, pollute, pull down, quash, queer, rot, ruin, shatter, sophisticate, spend, split, spoil, stymie, take away, thwack, trouble, undo, unmake, unsettle, upset, violate, vitiate, warp, wear, wreck, zap), gërryej (be corroded, be eroded, cave, chew, dredge, erode, gouge, hollow out, honeycomb, rasp, scoop out, scuff, tear, tear to pieces), brej (canker, crunch, eat away, eat up, fret, gnaw, nibble). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تلف (blight, bungle, burn, consume, damage, destroy, deteriorate, deterioration, go bad, go off, go to the dogs, harm, hash, impair, mangle, molder, moulder, ravage, ruin, scourge, spoil, spoilage, spoiling, take out, total, waste away), ‏تحات (corrosion, erode, erosion), ‏تآكل (abrasion, attrition, corrosion, erode, erosion, gnaw, wear out), ‏صدأ (corrosion, oxidize, rust, rustiness). (various references)

Bulgarian 

ръждясвам (become rusty, rust), разяждам (attack, bite, burn, canker, eat, erode, fret, gnaw, rust), дълбая (carve, cave, chamber, chip, delve, excavate, hollow, wear away). (various references)

Chinese 

腐蚀 (ablate, ablated, Corroded, Corroding, Corrosion, Decadent, Erode, Eroded, Eroding), 剝蝕 (denude). (various references)

Czech

rozleptávat (eat away), rozežrat, rezavìt, korodovat. (various references)

Dutch

corroderen, aantasten (assault, attack). (various references)

Esperanto

korodi. (various references)

Faeroese

eta seg inn í. (various references)

Farsi 

پوسیدن (Decay, Putrefy, Rot). (various references)

Finnish

syövyttää (erode, etch), syöpyä (be corroded, be impressed on a person's mind, become ingrained, eat into). (various references)

French

corroder (corridor). (various references)

Frisian

oantaaste (assault, violate). (various references)

German

korrodieren (to corrode), ätzen (burn, cauterize, erode, etch, etching, to cauterize, to corrode, to etch). (various references)

Greek 

καταναλίσκω βαθμιαίωσ, οξειδώνω (oxidate, oxidize), διαβρώνω (erode), διαβιβρώσκω (erode). (various references)

Hungarian

szétmar (to corrode, to fret), rozsdásodik (rust, to corrode, to develop rust, to rust). (various references)

Indonesian

merusak (blight, botch, deflower, deprave, detrimental, dilapidate, impair, wreck), dimakan karat. (various references)

Italian

corrodersi (rust), corrodere (abrade, eat, erode, pit, rust), consumare (consume, drink, eat, erode, expend, fray, fret, outwear, scuff, spend, use, waste, wear, wear down, wear out, weather), intaccare (damage, dip into, draw up, eat into, groove, hack, Nick, notch, score), degradazione intergranulare. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

腐れる (to corrode, to rot, to spoil). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

くされる (to corrode, to rot, to spoil), くさらす (to corrode, to rot, to spoil). (various references)

Korean 

침식하십시�". (various references)

Manx

craiughey (canker, corrosion, rasp, wasting), craiu (corrosion; lever, crowbar, eat away). (various references)

Norwegian

ruste. (various references)

Pig Latin

orrodecay

Portuguese

corroer (abrade, bite, canker, erode, fret, gnaw, honeycomb, waste), corrodente, carcomer (erode), oxidar (acetify, aerate, oxidate, oxidize, oxygenate, oxygenize), desgastar (abrade, chafe, fray, frazzle, fret, outwear, rub, wash out, waste, wear, wear down, wear off, wear out). (various references)

Romanian

coroda (bite), consuma (consume, destroy, exhaust, spend, take, use, waste, worry), se roade (fray, fret), se oxida (rust), se coroda, rugini (rust), roade (abrade, canker, consume, crunch, eat, eat into, eat through, erode, fester, fray, fruitage, gall, gnaw, hollow, nibble, prey, wear), oxida (acetify, acidify, oxidate, oxidize, rust), adânci (aggravate, Bury, deepen, delve, excavate, fathom, further, gouge, hole, sound, submerge, subside). (various references)

Russian 

разъедать (attack, canker, eat, eat away, erode, etch, fret). (various references)

Scottish

cn� mh (chew, corroding, digest, digesting, gnaw, gnawing, waste, wasting). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

nagrizati, korodirati (rust), gristi (bite, rankle, torment). (various references)

Spanish

corroerse (rust), corroer (erode, fret, rust). (various references)

Swedish

fräta (eat, fret, gnaw). (various references)

Turkish

yıpratmak (age, batter, chafe, fray, fray out, frazzle, fret, thumb, wear, wear away, wear down), yıpranmak (consume away, fray, fray out, frazzle, rub off, waste away, wear away, wear down, wear off, wear out), kemirmek (eat, erode, fret, gnaw, nibble, pick), aşındırmak (abrade, attack, bite, eat, eat at, eat away, erode, fray, fray out, fret, gnaw into, wash, wash away, wash off, wear, wear off), çürütmek (canker, cause to rot, confute, controvert, contuse, corrupt, decay, decompose, disproof, disprove, explode, molder, moulder, pick to pieces, putrefy, rebut, refute, rot, stultify). (various references)

Ukrainian

іржавіти (rust), роз'їдати (canker, eat, eat away, erode, fret, gnaw), витравляти. (various references)

Welsh

cancro (canker), bwyta (eat). (various references)

corrodere. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "corrode": corroded, corrodes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Corrode" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ccrorder, Cerrado, Cerrone, comroe, Cordee, Cormode, corod, corode, Corro, corrod, corroie, crocoldee, crode, Ecotrade, Kerkrade, Koroda, Odrodek. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: corder, record.

-2 letters: coder, cooed, cooer, cored, corer, credo, crore, decor, order, rodeo.

-3 letters: cero, code, coed, cord, core, deco, doer, door, dore, dorr, odor, ordo, redo, rode, rood.

-4 letters: cod, coo, cor, doc, doe, dor, err, ode, orc, ore, rec, red, roc, rod, roe.

-5 letters: de, do, ed, er, od, oe, or, re.

+1 letter: corroded, corrodes.

+2 letters: colorbred, cornrowed, corrodies, crookeder, decorator, overcrowd, proctored, recolored.

+3 letters: codirector, compradore, coproducer, corduroyed, correspond, corrodible, decorators, dockworker, overcrowds, procercoid, scoreboard, tricolored, woodcarver.

+4 letters: codirectors, compradores, coproducers, corresponds, decolorizer, dockworkers, ostracoderm, overcropped, overcrowded, overproduce, predoctoral, procercoids, recontoured, recordation, redecorator, scoreboards, urochordate, varicolored, woodcarvers.

+5 letters: adrenochrome, carrottopped, chloroformed, codiscoverer, controverted, corresponded, corroborated, counterorder, counterworld, creaturehood, decolorizers, decorticator, incorporated, nonconcurred, ostracoderms, outreproduce, overcrowding, overdecorate, overproduced, overproduces, plerocercoid, reconnoitred, recordations, redecoration, redecorators, reproduction, retrodiction, urochordates.