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/ɪrˈoʊʒən/ Listen

noun

Erosion n.

The act or operation of eroding or eating away.

The state of being eaten away; corrosion; canker.

The wearing away of the earth's surface by any natural process. The chief agent of erosion is running water; minor agents are glaciers, the wind, and waves breaking against the coast.

A gradual reduction or lessening as if by an erosive force; as, erosion of political support due to scandal; erosion of buying power by inflation. (fig.)

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"Erosion" Quotes from Famous Books

... Bable Tower, hed they but known ther secret, mighter from thet same material have bilt a dome higher nor St. Paul's, thet would uv shone like burnished silver 'nd would hev retained all its strength 'nd splendor, notwithstandin' ther erosion uv time 'nd ther abrashin' uv ther ages, even till now, tho' since then two hundred generations uv ...

— The Wedge of Gold • C. C. Goodwin

... also occur in the articular cartilages. They quickly lose their peculiar glistening polish, their semitransparency is lost, and the natural tint of a pearl-like blue gives way to a dirty yellow. Later this is followed by erosion of the cartilages at such points as they happen to be in greatest contact. The ends of the bones are thus exposed, and their medullary cavities exposed to infection. As a result we get in them the changes we have ...

— Diseases of the Horse's Foot • Harry Caulton Reeks

... occurs when water channels and reservoirs become clotted with silt and mud, a side effect of deforestation and soil erosion. ...

— The 2008 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... through it, does also find as ample illustrations in the sweeping Rhine as in any of the humbler streams whose courses I had watched and studied at home. These two principles afford perhaps the strongest and most conclusive of all proofs, that the hills and valleys of our planet are all the result of erosion. ...

— The Youthful Wanderer - An Account of a Tour through England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany • George H. Heffner

... The forms of erosion were as varied as the rock itself, each different-coloured rock stratum presenting a different surface. In one place the surface was broken into rounded forms like the backs of a herd of elephants. In ...

— Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico • E. L. Kolb

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