Definition of corrode

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

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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..
Erode :: Erode (v. t.) To eat into or away; to corrode; as, canker erodes the flesh..
Rust :: Rust (v. t.) To cause to contract rust; to corrode with rust; to affect with rust of any kind.
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..
Gnaw :: Gnaw (v. t.) To corrode; to fret away; to waste.
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..
Corrodible :: Corrodible (a.) Capable of being corroded; corrosible.
Corrodent :: Corrodent (a.) Corrosive.
Acrimony :: Acrimony (n.) A quality of bodies which corrodes or destroys others; also, a harsh or biting sharpness; as, the acrimony of the juices of certain plants..
Incorrodible :: Incorrodible (a.) Incapable of being corroded, consumed, or eaten away..
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..
Corrode :: Corrode (v. t.) To consume; to wear away; to prey upon; to impair.
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..
Corroded :: Corroded (imp. & p. p.) of Corrod.
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..
Corrodent :: Corrodent (n.) Anything that corrodes.
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..
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