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Eroded   Listen
verb
Eroded  past part., adj.  
1.
Eaten away; gnawed; irregular, as if eaten or worn away.
2.
(Bot.) Having the edge worn away so as to be jagged or irregularly toothed.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Eroded" Quotes from Famous Books



... the familiar country of fissures and draws that made travel slow and heavy. The trail rose, very gradually, wound around a number of multi-colored peaks and paused at last at the foot of a smooth-faced, purple butte. Here grew a cottonwood, sheltering from sun and sand a lava bowl, eroded by time and by the tiny stream of water that dripped into it gently. There was little or no view from the spring, for peaks and buttes closely hemmed it in. The November shadows deepened early on the strange, winding, almost subterranean trail, and although when ...
— The Enchanted Canyon • Honore Willsie Morrow

... along the rusty old track on its watersoaked ties, on the others by the still dripping timbers of the aged shaft and its broken, rotting ladder, while the carbide lanterns cast shadows about, while the pulley above creaked and the eroded wheels of the skip squeaked and protested! Downward—a hundred feet—and they collided with the upward-bound skip, to fend off from it and start on again. The air grew colder, more moist. The carbides spluttered and flared. Then a slight bump, and they ...
— The Cross-Cut • Courtney Ryley Cooper

... meteor plating, but since that was about as useful as wet cardboard against modern weapons, warcraft sacrificed it for the sake of mobility. The self-sealing hull was thin magnesium, the outer shell periodically renewed as cosmic sand eroded it. ...
— Industrial Revolution • Poul William Anderson



Words linked to "Eroded" :   scoured, worn



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