All 3 Uses of
corrosion
in
The Time Machine
- 'There I found a seat of some yellow metal that I did not recognize, corroded in places with a kind of pinkish rust and half smothered in soft moss, the arm-rests cast and filed into the resemblance of griffins' heads.†
Chpt 4 *
- Only ragged vestiges of glass remained in its windows, and great sheets of the green facing had fallen away from the corroded metallic framework.†
Chpt 8
- Here I was more in my element, for rising on either side of me were the huge bulks of big machines, all greatly corroded and many broken down, but some still fairly complete.†
Chpt 8
Definition:
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(corrosion) a state of deterioration -- especially in metals