erode

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

ERO'DE, verb transitive [Latin erodo; e and rodo, to gnaw.] To eat in or away; to corrode; as, canker erodes the flesh. The blood, being too sharp or thin, erodes the vessels.
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