eroding

«eroding» in Mova's school dictionary: Slowly wearing away rock, soil or land by wind, water or ice — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb, present participle of erode (erode, erodes, eroded, eroding); adjective (an eroding cliff)

meaning for a pupil

1) Slowly wearing away rock, soil or land by wind, water or ice. tree →

2) Being slowly worn away. tree →

3) Slowly making something weaker or smaller, such as trust or savings. tree →

sense in the lessons

In geography and science, waves are eroding cliffs, rivers are eroding valleys, and wind is eroding rocks into strange shapes. In everyday and money talk, «eroding trust» or «rising prices eroding savings» shows something getting weaker little by little. Phrases: «eroding the coast», «eroding away», «eroding confidence».

examples

• The sea is eroding the cliffs every winter. tree →
• The river is slowly eroding its banks. tree →
• Houses near the eroding coast may fall into the sea. tree →
• Wind is eroding the soft sandstone. tree →
• His lies are eroding her trust in him. tree →
• Rising prices are eroding the value of our pocket money. tree →

note

Form of «erode»; drop the «e» before «-ing». Noun: erosion. Trap: erosion (wearing away and carrying off) is different from weathering (breaking rock where it is).

In the corpora

• The Holderness coast in Yorkshire is one of Europe's fastest-eroding coasts, losing about 1-2 metres a year.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «eroding» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.