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Meanings of corroding in English

Portuguese
corrosão
Catalan
desgast
Spanish
corrosivo
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Erosion by chemical action.

        corrosão
        Usage of corroding in English
        1
        However, there is serious degradation caused by corroding metal throughout the vessel.
        The Irish Times
        2
        The plant itself is not a reassuring image: it's aging and corroding.
        The new yorker
        3
        The hopeless passion ran like a corroding poison through the inflammable tissue.
        Six Women
        4
        To Juvenal it falls to denounce the triumph of these corroding influences.
        Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
        5
        Mixed among this corroding metal lay the bones of the Meckros citizens.
        Blood and Bone
        6
        They looked ruined, as if the white was quicklime corroding their solidity.
        The Quiet Earth
        7
        Criminals continue to make huge profits, corroding and corrupting public and private lives.
        The Guardian
        8
        Outside, it kept raining against the window, corroding the cutlery inside.
        Chef
        9
        He acted like a man who had a corroding sorrow in his heart.
        Children of the Market Place
        10
        Just how or where fell the first corroding touch he could never tell.
        Phantom Wires: A Novel
        11
        For five years he had lived in a fool's paradise, a corroding dream.
        The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories
        12
        Grief, long-standing jealousy, constant care and corroding anxiety sometimes tend to develop insanity.
        In Tune with the Infinite; or, Fullness of Peace, Power, and Ple...
        13
        It also leads to metal parts of buildings corroding and the ground becoming unstable.
        Reuters
        14
        The corroding influence of Darwinism has spread as the doctrine has been increasingly accepted.
        In His Image
        15
        This disease of business would be corroding you and marring you all the time.
        Burning Daylight
        16
        The corroding years did not act as acid upon it.
        Flames
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        Corroding through the time
        Corroding across language varieties
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