Erode

Definitions: Erode

Erode

Verb

1. Become ground down or deteriorate; "Her confidence eroded".

2. Remove soil or rock, as of wind or water; "Rain eroded the terraces".

Domain	Definitions
Finance	Destroy gradually. Source: European Union. (references)
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Synonyms: Erode

Synonyms: eat at (v), eat away (v), fret (v), gnaw (v), gnaw at (v), wear away (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
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.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Erode

English words defined with "erode": eat away ♦ fret ♦ hush ♦ impetigo. (references)

Specialty definitions using "erode": base level ♦ engraving operator ♦ grit blast technique, grit-blasting ♦ nozzleman ♦ PHOTOENGRAVER, photolith operator ♦ sand blasting, sand-blasting, shot blasting, steel grit blasting. (references)

Etymologies containing "erode": Erodent, Erose. (references)

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Erode il grande (1958)
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Acute or chronic ulcers may enlarge and erode through a blood vessel, causing bleeding. (references)
		These infections can reduce visual clarity, produce corneal discharges, and perhaps erode the cornea. (references)
Business		Furthermore, the development of hydrogen fuel cell cars may further erode the lubricant market. (references)
Economic History	Jamaica	Weakness in the financial sector, speculation, and low levels of investment erode confidence in the productive sector. (references)
	Netherlands	But in the long run, higher wage costs are likely to erode the Dutch competitive position and result in falling exports. (references)
	Netherlands	Deterioration of the fiscal climate due to sharper tax competition among EU Member States is likely to also erode the Dutch competitive environment. (references)
Human Rights	Malaysia	A 1997 amendment to the Criminal Procedure Code that may erode defendants' presumption of innocence continued to concern lawyers. (references)
Political Economy	Syria	A high population growth rate of nearly 3 percent continued to erode economic gains. (references)
	Ireland	The recent spike in inflation has put stress on the April 2000 Partnership Program as the rise in inflation has begun to erode the value of pay rises agreed to in the Program. (references)
Worker Rights	Yemen	A combination of inflation and the loss of government-provided subsidies continued to erode wages. (references)
	Kuwait	At year's end, it was waiting to be passed on to the National Assembly for approval, which was expected to take place in early 2002. The Government's pervasive oversight powers further erode union independence. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Richard Nixon	1969-1974	This leads only to inflated expectations, to reduced individual effort, and to a disappointment and frustration that erode confidence both in what government can do and in what people can do.
Bill Clinton	1993-2001	The hard, cold fact is that millions more, mostly workers who are farmers, self-employed, and in small businesses, have seen their coverage erode with higher premium costs, higher deductibles, and higher co-payments.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Erode" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 78.50% of the time. "Erode" is used about 107 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	78.5%	84	36,109
Lexical Verb (base form)	17.76%	19	80,337
Noun (singular)	3.74%	4	175,879
Total	100.00%	107	N/A

Expression using "erode": erode metals. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "erode"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		shkatërroj (bash up, blow away, break to pieces, bust up, cast down, consume, crock, dash, decimate, defeat, demolish, depauperate, depredate, destroy, do for, do in, eat, explode, flatten, gut, kill, level, rase, ravage, raze, rout, ruin, shake down, shatter, sink, smash, smite, subvert, take away, tear to pieces, throw down, trample down, unbuild, vandalize, wreck, zap), ha (chamfer, consume, demolish, despatch, dispatch, eat, eat away, elide, feed, ingest, shark), gërryej (be corroded, be eroded, cave, chew, corrode, dredge, gouge, hollow out, honeycomb, rasp, scoop out, scuff, tear, tear to pieces). (various references)

Arabic		‏نحت (boast, carving, chisel, gouge, incise, pattern, scratch, sculpt, sculpture), ‏تحتت, ‏تحات (corrode, corrosion, erosion), ‏تآكل (abrasion, attrition, corrode, corrosion, erosion, gnaw, wear out), ‏إنجراف (drift, driftage). (various references)

Bulgarian		руша се (come down, ruin), разяждам (attack, bite, burn, canker, corrode, eat, fret, gnaw, rust), еродирам, подривам (blast, blow up, disrupt, eat away, gut, sap, shovel under, tear up, undermine, wash, wash out, wear away). (various references)

Chinese		腐蚀 (ablate, ablated, Corrode, Corroded, Corroding, Corrosion, Decadent, Eroded, Eroding). (various references)

Czech		erodovat, narušit (blemish, corrupt, dislocate, disrupt, impair, spoil). (various references)

Danish		en spulegraver med hoejstryksdyser,som nedgravningsprammen traekker med sig,rider oven paa roerledningen og foelger den saaledes i hele dens laengde;adskillige dyser med vand under hoejt tryk sidder paa sladen og spuler havbunden vaek og danner derved e (pulled along with a bury barge, straddles and walks the length of the pipeline;many high-pressure water jets on the sled erode away the seabed to form a trench under an existing sealine, the jetting sled). (various references)

Dutch		eroderen. (various references)

Finnish		syövyttää (corrode, etch). (various references)

French		éroder. (various references)

German		zerfressen (consume, corrode, eat away, erosion, gnaw, to erode), erodieren (level down, make flush), ausfressen (do smth. wrong, eat away, eat up, get up to, to erode), abtragen (abrade, bring away, carry away, carry off, clear away, clear off, dismantle, excavation, level down, outwear, pay off, regulating, removal, remove, shaping, stripping of overburden, to carry off, to remove, wear, wear away, wear out). (various references)

Greek		διαβιβρώσκω (corrode). (various references)

Hebrew		לאכול (consume, eat, manducate), ל�"חל�" (become rusty), לסחוף (carry away, drift, sweep, sweep away, wash away). (various references)

Hungarian		szétrág (to corrode, to erode, to scrunch), kimar (ate, eaten, to corrode, to eat, to eat away, to erode, to fret). (various references)

Italian		erodere (abrade). (various references)

Korean		해식하십시�". (various references)

Manx		ee (depletion, devour, dispose; consumption, eating, feed, her, it; eat, kill off, she), crimmey (degradation, eat slowly, erosion, toy with food). (various references)

Norwegian		erodere, tære bort. (various references)

Pig Latin		erodeay

Portuguese		escavar (cave, chip, delve, dig, dig in, examine, excavate, explore, gouge, grub, gully, gutter, hollow, investigate, mole, pit, research, scoop, to dig away, to excavate, wash out), corroer (abrade, bite, canker, corrode, fret, gnaw, honeycomb, rust, waste), carcomer (corrode), abrasar (be on fire, burn), águia marinha. (various references)

Romanian		eroda, roade (abrade, canker, consume, corrode, crunch, eat, eat into, eat through, fester, fray, fruitage, gall, gnaw, hollow, nibble, prey, wear). (various references)

Russian		разрушать (attack, break, broke, cast down, defeated, demolish, destroy, disestablish, make havoc of, play havoc, play havoc among, play havoc with, play hell, play the devil, play the mischief, shatter, subvert, unbuild, wrack, wracked, wreck). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		erodirati. (various references)

Spanish		corroer (corrode, fret, rust). (various references)

Swedish		erodera (fret). (various references)

Thai		กร่อน. (various references)

Turkish		tüketmek (consume, deplete, destroy, dispose of, drain, eat, eat up, exhaust, expend, extinguish, finish, spend, swallow up, use up, waste, wear away, wear out, whittle away, whittle off, work out), sarsmak (affect, afflict, agitate, buffet, buffet about, concuss, convulse, cut up, depolarise, dislocate, give a jerk, hit, horrify, jar, jerk, jog, jolt, jounce, reduce, rock, shake, shake up, shock, undermine, unsettle), kemirmek (corrode, eat, fret, gnaw, nibble, pick), aşındırmak (abrade, attack, bite, corrode, eat, eat at, eat away, fray, fray out, fret, gnaw into, wash, wash away, wash off, wear, wear off). (various references)

Turkmen		oburmak. (various references)

Ukranian		роз'їдати (canker, corrode, eat, eat away, fret, gnaw), псувати (alloy, bedevil, blemish, blight, blur, break, corrupt, cripple, debase, deface, deform, degrade, deprave, destroy, deteriorate, discount, disfigure, do for, envenom, flaw, make miserable, mess, mismanage, muddle, muff, perish, prejudice, punish, queer, spoil, vitiate, waste), підривати (blast, cave, detonate, disrupt, explode, fulminate, sap, tear up, undermine). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	adesa, attero. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Matthew Chapter 2, Verse 19
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	TeleuthsantoV de tou hrwdou idou aggeloV kuriou kat onar fainetai tw iwshf en aiguptw
Latin	405	Vulgate	Defuncto autem Herode ecce apparuit angelus Domini in somnis Ioseph in Aegypto
Old English	990	West Saxon	Soðliche þa herodes wæs forð-faren.witodliche on swefne drihtnesængel ætywede ioseph on egypte.
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	Sothely Erode dead, loo! the angel of the Lord apeeride in sleep to Joseph in Egipt,
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	When Herode was deed: beholde an angell of ye Lorde appered in a dreame to Ioseph in Egypte
Jacobean English	1611	King James	But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeareth in a dream to Joseph in Egypt,
Victorian English	1833	Webster	But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeareth in a dream to Joseph in Egypt,
Basic English	1964	Ogden	But when Herod was dead, an angel of the Lord came in a dream to Joseph in Egypt,
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Language	Matthew Chapter 2, Verse 19
Cebuano	¶ Apan sa pagkamatay na ni Herodes, tan-awa, usa ka manolunda sa Ginoo mitungha kang Jose didto sa Egipto pinaagi sa damgo, ug miingon kaniya,
Chinese	希律死了以後、有主的使者、在埃及向約瑟夢中顯現、說、
Croatian	Nakon Herodova skonèanja, gle, anðeo se Gospodnji javi u snu Josipu u Egiptu:
Danish	Men da Herodes var død, se, da viser en Herrens Engel sig i en Drøm for Josef i Ægypten og siger:
Dutch	Toen Herodes nu gestorven was, ziet, de engel des Heeren verschijnt Jozef in den droom, in Egypte.
Finnish	Mutta kun Herodes oli kuollut, niin katso, Herran enkeli ilmestyi unessa Joosefille Egyptissä
French	Quand Hérode fut mort, voici, un ange du Seigneur apparut en songe � Joseph, en Égypte,
German	Da aber Herodes gestorben war, siehe, da erschien der Engel des HERRN dem Joseph im Traum in Ägyptenland
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Sesudah Herodes meninggal, ketika Yusuf masih di Mesir seorang malaikat Tuhan menampakkan diri lagi kepada Yusuf di dalam mimpi.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Apabila Herodes sudah mati, maka kelihatanlah seorang malaekat Tuhan kepada Yusuf di dalam mimpi di tanah Mesir,
Italian	Morto Erode, un angelo del Signore apparve in sogno a Giuseppe in Egitto
Manx Gaelic	Agh lurg baase Herod, cur-my-ner haink ainle y Chiarn ayns ashlish gys Joseph ayns Egypt,
Maori	¶ A, no ka mate a Herora, na ka puta moemoea te anahera a te Ariki ki a Hohepa ki Ihipa,
Norwegian	Men da Herodes var død, se, da åpenbarer Herrens engel sig i en drøm for Josef i Egypten og sier:
Portuguese	Mas tendo morrido Herodes, eis que um anjo do Senhor apareceu em sonho a José no Egito,
Rumanian	Dupq ce a murit Irod, un knger al Domnului se aratq kn vis lui Iosif, kn Egipt,
Shuar	¶ Tura Irutis jakamtai Yusa suntari mesekranam Jusen ujakmiayi.
Swahili	Baada ya kifo cha Herode, malaika wa Bwana alimtokea Yosefu katika ndoto kule Misri,
Swedish	Men när Herodes var död, se, då visade sig i drömmen en Herrens ängel for Josef, i Egypten,
Uma	¶ Bula-ra Yusuf, Maria pai' Yesus hi Mesir, Magau' Herodes mate. Oti toe, mehupa' wo'o-imi mala'eka Pue' hi Yusuf hi rala ompo' -na.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "erode": eroded, erodent, erodes. (additional references)
	Words containing "erode": scleroderma, sclerodermas, sclerodermata. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Erode" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: arode, Bergodi, derode, Ecroyd, egote, elode, emode, emrawde, eod, eode, Erada, erade, erde, Erdem, Erden, erdo, Erdos, Erede, erete, Erfoud, eride, erider, eridge, Eridu, erod, erodel, eroe, eroge, erot, erott, eroze, Erridge, errode, erroe, erude, erupe, Eurhodip, Eurocds, eurolex, Frode, heroed, Iroda, Odrodek, wrode, Zewolde. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "erode" (pronounced irō"d or ē"rōd)
3	-r ō" d	bestrode, crowed, overrode, road, rode, rowed, strode.
3	-r ō d	electrode, escrowed, narrowed, zeroed.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-e-o-r"
	-1 letter: deer, dere, doer, dore, dree, rede, redo, reed, rode.
	-2 letters: dee, doe, dor, ere, ode, ore, red, ree, rod, roe.
	-3 letters: de, do, ed, er, od, oe, or, re.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-e-o-r"
	+1 letter: emerod, eroded, erodes, oreide, overed, recode, redoes, redone, teredo, zeroed.
	+2 letters: bedsore, berobed, bowered, coerced, cohered, covered, cowered, deboner, decoder, decoyer, deforce, deplore, deposer, dowered, emerods, emeroid, encoder, encored, endorse, endower, enrobed, erodent, exoderm, freedom, homered, hovered, lowered, modeler, moderne, ochered, oersted, offered, ordered, orderer, oreides, overbed, overdue, overdye, overfed, powered, precode, proceed, rebored, recoded, recodes, redbone, redoxes, redrove, reendow, remodel, removed, reoiled, reorder, reposed, reredos, resoled, resowed, revoked, revoted, rezoned, rodeoed, roweled, sobered, teredos, tetrode, towered, urodele, xeroxed, yodeler.
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