MEANING
To damage a material through chemical action, or gradually weaken something abstract.
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Words that belong together
- corrode metal
- corrode trust
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Saltwater corroded the hinges.
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Word forms
- Base
- corrode
- Past tense
- corroded
- Past participle
- corroded
- Present participle
- corroding
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- corrode
- Present continuous
- am/is/are corroding
- Present perfect
- have/has corroded
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been corroding
- Past
- corroded
- Past continuous
- was/were corroding
- Past perfect
- had corroded
- Past perfect continuous
- had been corroding
- Future
- will corrode
- Future continuous
- will be corroding
- Future perfect
- will have corroded
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been corroding
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror / gothic. Forms: corrode; corrodes; corroded; corroded; corroding Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: corrodes.
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