erode
/ɪˈɹəʊd/US/ɪˈɹoʊd/
erode verb: to wear away by abrasion, corrosion, or chemical reaction.
Verb
erode (third-person singular simple present erodes, present participle eroding, simple past and past participle eroded)
Proper noun capitalized: Erode
Erode
- A district of Tamil Nadu, India.
- The capital city of Erode district, Tamil Nadu, India.
erode meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada
erode in Tamil
- அரித்து அழி, அரி
erode in Urdu
- to erode; scatter; tumble
- کھرنا khurnā
erode in Malayalam
- കുറശ്ശേ തേഞ്ഞുമാഞ്ഞുപോവുക, കാർന്നുതിന്നുക, കരളുക, കുറശ്ശെ തിന്നു നശിപ്പിക്കുക
erode in Kannada
- ನಾಶಗೊಳಿಸು, ನಾಶವಾಗು, ತಿಂದುಹಾಕು, ಸವೆಯಿಸು, ಕೊರೆದುಹಾಕು, ಸಮೆದುಹೋಗು
More languagesFewer languages
- erode in Punjabi
- کھرنا khurnā
- erode in Nepali
- क्षरण गर्न
- erode in Vietnamese
- xói mòn, xâm thực, ăn mòn
Examples of erode in a sentence
- The new bond issue now appears to be on the bubble, with support eroding.
- Stagflation—inflation combined with minimal economic growth—eroded wages and profits, weakening business and consumer confidence.
- He climbed past eroding, sandy cement and pencil-thin rusted rebar that spoke of Soviet-era cost cutting.
Synonyms of erode
Forms of erode
| third-person singular present | erodes |
|---|---|
| present participle | eroding |
| past participle | eroded |
| past | eroded |
Origin of erode
From French éroder, from Latin ērōdō.
Borrowed from Tamil ஈரோடு (īrōṭu).
Words formed from erode
Words that rhyme with erode
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- abode
- bode
- choad
- corrode
- encode
- goad
- toad
- antipode
- decode
- episode
- forebode
- hoed
- incommode
- overrode
- recode
- rode
- strode
- throwed
- unicode
- woad
- 'splode
- bestowed
- cestode
- chode
- crowed
- discommode
- glode
- Gold Code
- grode
- growed
- hode
- I'll be blowed
- lowed
- mowed
- nuclear code
- ode
- owed
- shode
- side road
- Spanish Road
- stroad
- subnode
- tode
- toed
- towed
- Union Road
- uudecode
- uuencode
Questions about erode
- What does erode mean?
- Erode means to wear away by abrasion, corrosion, or chemical reaction.
- What is erode in Tamil?
- Erode in Tamil is அரித்து அழி, அரி. See Erode meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is erode?
- Erode can be a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce erode?
- Erode is pronounced /ɪˈɹəʊd/ (UK).
- What is the past tense of erode?
- The past tense of erode is eroded.
Words near erode in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: erode (page history and authors); Erode (page history and authors); erode (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); کھرنا (Urdu) (page history and authors); erode (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); erode (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); کھرنا (Punjabi) (page history and authors); erode (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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