Corrode
verb
To slowly damage or destroy something over a period of time.
The iron fence has corroded over the years due to lack of maintenance
Often appears as...
- corrode over time
- corrode metal
verb
To gradually weaken or destroy someone's spirit or qualities.
His constant criticism has corroded her self-confidence
Often appears as...
- corrode confidence
- corrode spirit
verb
To slowly damage or destroy something over a period of time.
The iron fence has corroded over the years due to lack of maintenance
Often appears as...
- corrode over time
- corrode metal
verb
To gradually weaken or destroy someone's spirit or qualities.
His constant criticism has corroded her self-confidence
Often appears as...
- corrode confidence
- corrode spirit
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Not Instant
Corrode suggests a slow process, not something that happens quickly.
The old bridge corroded over decades of exposure.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Change
Use 'corrode' to describe the physical damage of materials, usually by chemicals or weather.
Acid rain can corrode building surfaces.
Pro Tip 3/3Visible Effects
Corrosion often results in noticeable changes like rust or color fading.
The pipes corroded and turned a greenish color.
Pro Tip 1/3Not Instant
Corrode suggests a slow process, not something that happens quickly.
The old bridge corroded over decades of exposure.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Change
Use 'corrode' to describe the physical damage of materials, usually by chemicals or weather.
Acid rain can corrode building surfaces.
Pro Tip 3/3Visible Effects
Corrosion often results in noticeable changes like rust or color fading.
The pipes corroded and turned a greenish color.
Pro Tip 1/3Not Instant
Corrode suggests a slow process, not something that happens quickly.
The old bridge corroded over decades of exposure.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Change
Use 'corrode' to describe the physical damage of materials, usually by chemicals or weather.
Acid rain can corrode building surfaces.
Pro Tip 3/3Visible Effects
Corrosion often results in noticeable changes like rust or color fading.
The pipes corroded and turned a greenish color.
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Shaving Foam PIPE...
an antioxidant that helps prevent the can from corroding now the last group of ingredients are the propellants specifically isobutane and propane which are both flammable and explosive so whatever you do do not just kidding at reasonable temperature and pressure this will not combust because there's not
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Sending Humans to Mars:...
If you stop the internal engine, you go in the one-way deep freeze. It's what happened to Mars, because it's smaller than the Earth. So terraforming can increase the temperature of the surface, but you can get some gas out. But it will eventually get corroded and put back down into the subsurface
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What if cracks in...
tiny cracks can be just as dangerous. Concrete is often used as a secondary support around steel reinforcements. In this concrete, even small cracks can channel water, oxygen, and carbon dioxide that corrode the steel and lead to disastrous collapse.
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Snapping Suspension...
corrodes the metal they'll use a sort of giant hairdryer to pump dehumidified air into those tiny spaces to get it dry and keep it dry that's one of the inlets for the dry air right there but like I said this is experimental there are no
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How computer memory...
Solid-state drives also have an additional weakness. Repeatedly writing to floating gate transistors corrodes them, eventually rendering them useless. With data on most current storage media having less than a ten-year life expectancy,
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How deepfakes undermine...
lead to violence against ethnic minorities. And that was just text -- imagine if it were video. Now, deepfakes have the potential to corrode the trust that we have in democratic institutions. So, imagine the night before an election.
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How does climate change...
waters tiny little potato chips of the ocean Terra positive sea butterflies hugely important food resource for whales for salmon for birds are actually corroding today their shells are corroding today so they're very
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Volcanic eruption...
Finally, eruptions can occur when the rock layer is no longer strong enough to hold back the magma below. Acidic gases and heat escaping from magma can corrode rock through a process called hydrothermal alteration,
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How to recover from...
I have a nightmare that one day the lighthouses of our humanity will crumble, corroded by acid waves of hate. But way more than that, I have hope. In our fights for justice and freedom, I hope that we play,
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Whatever happened to...
These all acidify lakes and streams, kill crops and forests, and damage soil to inhibit future growth. Over time, acid rain can even corrode human structures made of stone or metal.
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Shaving Foam PIPE...
an antioxidant that helps prevent the can from corroding now the last group of ingredients are the propellants specifically isobutane and propane which are both flammable and explosive so whatever you do do not just kidding at reasonable temperature and pressure this will not combust because there's not
Video examples
Sending Humans to Mars:...
If you stop the internal engine, you go in the one-way deep freeze. It's what happened to Mars, because it's smaller than the Earth. So terraforming can increase the temperature of the surface, but you can get some gas out. But it will eventually get corroded and put back down into the subsurface
Video examples
What if cracks in...
tiny cracks can be just as dangerous. Concrete is often used as a secondary support around steel reinforcements. In this concrete, even small cracks can channel water, oxygen, and carbon dioxide that corrode the steel and lead to disastrous collapse.
Video examples
Snapping Suspension...
corrodes the metal they'll use a sort of giant hairdryer to pump dehumidified air into those tiny spaces to get it dry and keep it dry that's one of the inlets for the dry air right there but like I said this is experimental there are no
Video examples
How computer memory...
Solid-state drives also have an additional weakness. Repeatedly writing to floating gate transistors corrodes them, eventually rendering them useless. With data on most current storage media having less than a ten-year life expectancy,
Video examples
How deepfakes undermine...
lead to violence against ethnic minorities. And that was just text -- imagine if it were video. Now, deepfakes have the potential to corrode the trust that we have in democratic institutions. So, imagine the night before an election.
Video examples
How does climate change...
waters tiny little potato chips of the ocean Terra positive sea butterflies hugely important food resource for whales for salmon for birds are actually corroding today their shells are corroding today so they're very
Video examples
Volcanic eruption...
Finally, eruptions can occur when the rock layer is no longer strong enough to hold back the magma below. Acidic gases and heat escaping from magma can corrode rock through a process called hydrothermal alteration,
Video examples
How to recover from...
I have a nightmare that one day the lighthouses of our humanity will crumble, corroded by acid waves of hate. But way more than that, I have hope. In our fights for justice and freedom, I hope that we play,
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Whatever happened to...
These all acidify lakes and streams, kill crops and forests, and damage soil to inhibit future growth. Over time, acid rain can even corrode human structures made of stone or metal.
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Quote examples
Sukarno
Indonesian Statesman
We are living in a world of fear. The life of man today is corroded and made bitter by fear: fear of the future, fear of the hydrogen bomb, fear of ideologies. Perhaps this fear is a greater danger than the danger itself because it is fear, which drives men to act thoughtlessly, to act dangerously.
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Dominic Grieve
British Politician
This is bad for policy-making - if you cover up the problems, how can you solve them? It also corrodes public trust. Government must be much more honest about the challenges facing the country, if we are to begin to tackle them. Short-term spin must give way to proper long-term strategic thinking.
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Howard Fast
American Novelist
I was part of a generation that believed in socialism and finally found that belief corroded and destroyed. That is not renouncing Communism or socialism. It's reaching a certain degree of enlightenment about what the Soviet Union practices.
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Sergei Lavrov
Russian Diplomat
Russia would prefer to rebuild trust rather than allow it to further corrode. That's why, in July 2007, President Putin, in the spirit of strategic openness, proposed a truly collective effort at missile defense for Europe.
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Rahm Emanuel
American Politician
For all the things that make Chicago great, for all the things that make us proud to call ourselves Chicagoans, the violence that is happening corrodes our core. It is not the Chicago we know and love.
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Elizabeth Esty
American Politician
The water crisis in Flint, Michigan, has shown us what can happen when we ignore the warning signs of lead poisoning and corroding pipes.
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Milan Kundera
Czechoslovakian Writer
No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.
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Jesse Owens
American Athlete
Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
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Chuck Schumer
American Politician
Soft money will find its way and seep into the political system and corrode it, unless we plug every hole.
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Deborah Tannen
American Sociologist
Our spirits are corroded by living in an atmosphere of unrelenting contention - an argument culture.
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Sukarno
Indonesian Statesman
We are living in a world of fear. The life of man today is corroded and made bitter by fear: fear of the future, fear of the hydrogen bomb, fear of ideologies. Perhaps this fear is a greater danger than the danger itself because it is fear, which drives men to act thoughtlessly, to act dangerously.
Quote examples
Dominic Grieve
British Politician
This is bad for policy-making - if you cover up the problems, how can you solve them? It also corrodes public trust. Government must be much more honest about the challenges facing the country, if we are to begin to tackle them. Short-term spin must give way to proper long-term strategic thinking.
Quote examples
Howard Fast
American Novelist
I was part of a generation that believed in socialism and finally found that belief corroded and destroyed. That is not renouncing Communism or socialism. It's reaching a certain degree of enlightenment about what the Soviet Union practices.
Quote examples
Sergei Lavrov
Russian Diplomat
Russia would prefer to rebuild trust rather than allow it to further corrode. That's why, in July 2007, President Putin, in the spirit of strategic openness, proposed a truly collective effort at missile defense for Europe.
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Rahm Emanuel
American Politician
For all the things that make Chicago great, for all the things that make us proud to call ourselves Chicagoans, the violence that is happening corrodes our core. It is not the Chicago we know and love.
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Elizabeth Esty
American Politician
The water crisis in Flint, Michigan, has shown us what can happen when we ignore the warning signs of lead poisoning and corroding pipes.
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Milan Kundera
Czechoslovakian Writer
No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.
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Jesse Owens
American Athlete
Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
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Chuck Schumer
American Politician
Soft money will find its way and seep into the political system and corrode it, unless we plug every hole.
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Deborah Tannen
American Sociologist
Our spirits are corroded by living in an atmosphere of unrelenting contention - an argument culture.
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