英语释义
1. to diminish or destroy by degrees:
2. to eat into or away by slow destruction of substance (as by acid, infection, or cancer)
3. to wear away by the action of water, wind, or glacial ice
flooding eroded the hillside
4. to cause to deteriorate or disappear as if by eating or wearing away
inflation eroding buying power
5. to produce or form by eroding
glaciers erode U-shaped valleys
6. to undergo erosion
where the land has eroded away
7. to gradually destroy (something) or to be gradually destroyed by natural forces (such as water, wind, or ice)
8. to destroy or be destroyed by wearing away
Waves erode the shore.
9. to eat into or away by slow destruction of substance (as by acid, infection, or cancer)
acids that erode the teeth bone eroded by cancer
10. to remove with an abrasive
a dental tool that erodes the decayed area