0 If metal corrodes, or if something corrodes it, it is slowly damaged by something such as rain or water: --
Steel tends to corrode faster in a salty atmosphere.
1 to destroy or be destroyed, esp. by acid or rust, usually over a long period of time: --
They should entertain men with singing and dancing, but because overzealous activity of any kind corroded their honour, they must never exhibit eagerness or excessive proficiency in either arena.
Vernon can argue, if he wants, that this medium is part of his message, and that he seeks to corrode the formalities of prose.
At forty, he was locked into a professional and political scenario that both soured his feelings of 'home ' and corroded his youthful vocational dreams.
Political oppression itself is also a source of alienation, mistrust, and selfcontempt that corrodes domestic relationships, estranges parents from their children, and undermines solidarity within communities.
Simmering resentment could corrode humane values and foster poor clinical habits just as badly - if not more so - than the competitive aspects of the match.
Crystals of euhedral sanidine and marginally corroded plagioclase reach up to 500 m in size and are usually extensively altered to kaolinite.
To put oneself in the place of someone whose soul is corroded by affliction, or in near danger of it, is to annihilate oneself.
General standards allow courts to resist legislation; specific rules may reduce the ability of courts to corrode legislative enactments.
