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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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Etymology of 'Erosion'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Erosion" Quotes from Famous Books

... high bank of sand on the right which had been cut out by the erosion of the violent current. Near by some philanthropist had put up a sign, "Keep ...

— Klondike Nuggets - and How Two Boys Secured Them • E. S. Ellis

... material which had heretofore been firm or stiff had, under erosion, obtained a soup-like consistency, and that a huge cavity some 3 ft. wide and 26 ft. deep had been washed up ...

— Pressure, Resistance, and Stability of Earth • J. C. Meem

... been exploited for private gain not only until the timber has been seriously reduced, but until streams have been ruined for navigation, power, irrigation, and common water supplies, and whole regions have been exposed to floods and disastrous soil erosion. Probably there has never occurred a more reckless destruction of property that of right should belong to ...

— Three Acres and Liberty • Bolton Hall

... and had swept them all away with a gesture, leaving only the stretch of shore; much as it was before Thorhaven existed, and as it would be when Thorhaven was under the sea like the other village beyond, which coast erosion had taken. ...

— The Privet Hedge • J. E. Buckrose

... the very edge, peering out and down through a green screen. A couple of hundred feet in length and width, it was half of that in depth. Possibly because of some fault that had occurred when the knolls were flung together, and certainly helped by freakish erosion, the hole had been scooped out in the course of centuries by the wash of water. Nowhere did the raw earth appear. All was garmented by vegetation, from tiny maiden-hair and gold-back ferns to mighty redwood and Douglas spruces. These great trees even sprang out from the ...

— The Iron Heel • Jack London

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