Corrosion

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The act or process of corroding.
  • n. The condition produced by corroding.
  • n. A substance, such as rust, formed by corroding.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The act of corroding or the condition so produced.
  • n. A substance (such as rust) so formed.
  • n. Erosion by chemical action, especially oxidation.
  • n. The gradual destruction or undermining of something.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The action or effect of corrosive agents, or the process of corrosive change.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Literally, the act or process of eating or gnawing away; hence, the process of wearing away, disintegrating, or destroying by the gradual separation of small parts or particles, especially by the action of chemical agents, as acids: often used figuratively of the destructive influence of care, grief, time, etc.
  • n. In geology, the solution and removal of rocks, usually in water; the eating away by fusion and absorption of a solid mass of rock or of a mineral which is inclosed in a molten magma.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a state of deterioration in metals caused by oxidation or chemical action
  • n. erosion by chemical action
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    consumption    gnawing    etching    rusty   
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    erosion    explosion    implosion   
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