Noun: erosion
| Singular | erosion |
| Plural | erosions |
Sample Sentences
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Father Ted: The cliffs were gone? How could they just disappear?
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Dougal: Erosion. [1995, Graham Linehan & al., "Good Luck, Father Ted", Father Ted Series 1, Episode 1, Channel Four]
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Even second-generation biofuels, made from crop wastes or wood, are an environmental disaster, either extending the cultivated area or removing the straw and stovers which protect the soil from erosion and keep carbon and nutrients in the ground. [2012 August 24, George Monbiot, Guardian Weekly, page 20:]
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the erosion of a person's trust
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trademark erosion, caused by everyday use of the trademarked term
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No social system that isn’t built upon the belief to the divine, or morality and traditional values, can withstand the erosion and degeneration of humankind’s morality, including democracy. [2020 November 8, Si Xiang, “The U.S. Election Is a Battle Between Good and Evil”, in Minghui:]
Nouns inflected like erosion
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle French erosion, from Latin ērōsiō (“eating away”), derived from ērōdō.
2. The first known occurrence in English was in the 1541 translation by Robert Copland of Guy de Chauliac's medical text The Questyonary of Cyrurygens. Copland used erosion to describe how ulcers developed in the mouth. By 1774 erosion was used outside medical subjects. Oliver Goldsmith employed the term in the more contemporary geological context, in his book Natural History, with the quote
3. : "Bounds are thus put to the erosion of the earth by water." See: Latin Nouns '
ērōsiō'.
Verbs referencing "erosion"
Finnish Nouns
eroosio, Dutch Nouns
erosie.