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a state of deterioration — especially in metals- The bridge is painted each year to protect the steel from salt air corrosion.
- the corrosion of American values
- A solitary corroded coin.Markus Zusak -- The Book Thief
- He unsnapped the corroding latches and opened it.Cormac McCarthy -- The Road
- Papa's eyes started corroding.Markus Zusak -- The Book Thief
- A suddenness found its way onto his lips then, which were a corroded brown color and peeling, like old paint.Markus Zusak -- The Book Thief
- Or a murdered reality, unborn, killed by that corroding emotion without name—fear—need—dependence—hatred?Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead
- Shells, gas clouds, and flotillas of tanks—shattering, corroding, death.Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front
- Judging from their corroded shields and the smoking plumes on their helmets, they'd already learned about the basilisks' poison and fire.Rick Riordan -- The Son of Neptune
- Reestablished in the corroded shell of Fairbanks 142, McCandless fell back into his routine of hunting and gathering.Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild
- Advances in culture, no less than advances in science and industry, corrode the very society under whose aegis they are made possible.Clement Greenberg -- Avant-garde and Kitsch
- That was before it corroded to orange.Becca Fitzpatrick -- Hush, Hush
- I felt even my soul had been corroded by salt.Yann Martel -- Life of Pi
- Native ferocity held one in subjection, while the corroding passion of revenge prevented the other from admitting any gentler feeling at the moment.James Fenimore Cooper -- The Deerslayer
- The metal was corroded and the railings bent under pressure.Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
- The real Clarisse demanded, holding the other girl in her arms while the campers struggled to remove the poison-corroded helmet.Rick Riordan -- The Last Olympian
- But fear, as I have said, was working strange changes in all of us, corroding our ability for clear thought.Geraldine Brooks -- Year of Wonders
- Nearby lay a corroded bronze dagger very much like her own.Rick Riordan -- The Mark of Athena
- The decorative grille under the eaves had oxidized to a bile green, old corrosion ran down the brick like mascara, parallel to the drainpipes.Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
- It didn't seem to have been damaged by the fire or corroded by the bone-tar.Patrick Rothfuss -- The Name of the Wind
corroded = deteriorating
corroding = deteriorating — especially of metals
corroding = deteriorating
corroded = deteriorated
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