erodes

verb

present tense third-person singular of erode
1
as in eats
to consume or wear away gradually the fear that inflation will continue to erode people's savings

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2
as in wears
to damage or diminish by continued friction the winds and desert sands have eroded much of the original surface of these ancient monuments

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Recent Examples of erodes In other words, the same smell that once felt grounding can start to feel unsettling when emotional trust erodes. — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 June 2026 That pressure erodes well-being, undermines family life, and disproportionately impacts working parents and caregivers. — Paula Wethington, CBS News, 24 June 2026 This undermines financial stability, erodes reserves intended for true emergencies, and increases the likelihood of necessary cuts or emergency measures in the future. — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 June 2026 As that assumption erodes, attention has shifted from hardening GPS toward security through diversification. — Zak Kassas, The Conversation, 23 June 2026 Financial privacy erodes gradually through risk assessments, compliance obligations, information sharing partnerships and international standards presented as technical rather than political. — Susie Violet Ward, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for erodes
  1. eats
  2. wears
  3. destroys
  4. frays
  5. corrodes
  6. reduces
  7. rubs
  8. erases
Verb
  • Inadvertently, Charlotte and I were, with our company run out of her basement, involved at a very seminal level in changing the way America eats in terms of its vegetables.
    — Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 7 July 2026
  • The series would follow an Italian-American kid who eats moon rocks, fails to digest them, and ends up with terribly inconvenient superpowers.
    — Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 7 July 2026
Definition of eats
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  • Rodríguez Castro wears a stainless-steel version on his left wrist.
    — Romina Ruiz-Goiriena, USA Today, 6 July 2026
  • Team Visma-Lease A Bike’s Jonas Vingegaard currently wears the yellow jersey after two stages, while Mexico’s Isaac del Toro of UAE Team Emirates won his first Tour de France stage on Sunday afternoon.
    — Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 5 July 2026
Definition of wears
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  • The technology was developed and tested in close collaboration with a person living with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a progressive neurological disease that gradually destroys the nerve cells controlling voluntary muscle movement.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 7 July 2026
  • The human contribution that remains is precisely the kind of thinking that fragmentation destroys.
    — Faustino Júnior, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
Definition of destroys
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  • Conjuring the troubled inner life of a young, successful Buenos Aires fashion designer with an uncommon mix of stylistic rigor and feeling, the film frays your nerves.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 16 June 2026
  • The coalition of supporters frays Still another issue is conflict within the legalization movement itself, particularly between the business and activist wings.
    — William Garriott, The Conversation, 17 Apr. 2026
Definition of frays
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  • Salt water corrodes wood pilings, which need to be replaced every so often.
    — Caelyn Pender, Mercury News, 15 June 2026
  • This corrodes faith in our democratic system.
    — The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 9 June 2026
Definition of corrodes
Verb
  • First, adding nutrients reduces the amount of carbon that plants send below ground to microbes.
    — Esther Ndumi Ngumbi, The Conversation, 8 July 2026
  • Classifying workers as independent contractors reduces overhead, simplifies hiring and feels flexible.
    — Gary Galstyan, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
Definition of reduces
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  • The nurse rubs circles on her lower back, clucking at the struggle of turning the pregnant body to the side like a lopsided gourd.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 25 June 2026
  • Every texture is an independent agent with its own membrane in the mix; percussion rubs and scrapes against your attention, while mutating synth patches burble in the periphery.
    — H.D. Angel, Pitchfork, 16 June 2026
Definition of rubs
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  • Windows automatically erases them after 72 hours to prevent them from using too much disk space.
    — Chris Hoffman, PC Magazine, 1 July 2026
  • The whole thing with Pullman porters is they weren’t called by their names, they were all called George, so that erases your identity.
    — Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 25 June 2026
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