Definition of corrode

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

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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..
Canker :: Canker (n.) Anything which corrodes, corrupts, or destroy..
#NAME? :: -ent () An adjective suffix signifying action or being; as, corrodent, excellent, emergent, continent, quiescent. See -ant..
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..
Corrode :: Corrode (v. t.) To consume; to wear away; to prey upon; to impair.
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..
Corrodent :: Corrodent (n.) Anything that corrodes.
Rust :: Rust (v. t.) To cause to contract rust; to corrode with rust; to affect with rust of any kind.
Canker :: Canker (v. t.) To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume.
Erode :: Erode (v. t.) To eat into or away; to corrode; as, canker erodes the flesh..
Corrodible :: Corrodible (a.) Capable of being corroded; corrosible.
Exulcerate :: Exulcerate (v. t. & i.) To corrode; to fret; to chafe; to inflame.
Corrode :: Corrode (v. i.) To have corrosive action; to be subject to corrosion.
Corrodent :: Corrodent (a.) Corrosive.
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..
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..
Incorrodible :: Incorrodible (a.) Incapable of being corroded, consumed, or eaten away..
Gnaw :: Gnaw (v. t.) To corrode; to fret away; to waste.
Corrodiate :: Corrodiate (v. t.) To eat away by degrees; to corrode.
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..
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