Erosion is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for EROSION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of eroding
• the process of eroding or being eroded by wind, water, or other natural agents
• the gradual destruction or diminution of something
• the gradual destruction of tissue or tooth enamel by physical or chemical action
• a place where surface tissue has been gradually destroyed
• wearing away of rocks or soil
• The act or operation of eroding or eating away.
• The state of being eaten away; corrosion; canker.
• (geology) the mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles washing over it)
• condition in which the earth\'s surface is worn away by the action of water and wind
• a gradual decline of something
• erosion by chemical action

Words related to EROSION

erosional9 erosions8 erosive10 erosivity15

Words that contain EROSION

erosions8 erosional9 erosionally14

How to use EROSION in a sentence

• The erosion of the ages had played strange tricks with the sandstone.
• Later this is followed by erosion of the cartilages at such points as they happen to be in greatest contact.
• This material is the most fertile portion of our richest fields, transformed from a blessing to a curse by unrestricted erosion.
• Their denuded condition is due largely to the destruction of the neighboring mountain forests and to the activities of erosion.
• It supplies shelter for the livestock during stormy weather and protects the soil against erosion.
• Very curious and interesting erosion of surface of the ice foot by waves during recent gale.
• Where the erosion of many centuries of dripping water had eaten its first step in the making of the ragged fissure a fairy had begun to climb down from the edge of the tundra.
• Gully on a Field of Union Farm, Showing Susceptibility to Erosion.
• Those tracts which are cultivated are very susceptible to erosion.
• The loss by erosion had been great along that part of the shore since those first settlers arrived.
• These gullies being in compact clay, the water has but little power of erosion, so they are worn deep but narrow.
• On the very margin of this fissure stands a curious isolated rock that has survived the general erosion of the mesa.
• The mountains through long continued erosion were reduced to gentle and uniform slopes of comparatively slight elevation.
• They may be used to prevent erosion on steep slopes.
• Here hand and foot holes have been pecked in the steep places, but as the rock is much exposed to atmospheric erosion these holes are now almost obliterated.
• The pits in the rock are so much worn by atmospheric erosion that the ascent now is very dangerous.
• If caused by erosion, the woman feels a scalding of the passage, and it differs from the other two, in so much as it does not flow so quickly or so freely as they do.
• These slopes were smooth, graceful, symmetrical, with tiny tracery of erosion, and each appeared to retain its own color, yellow or cinnamon or mauve.
• Lost through cropping and erosion, it may be rebuilt and deepened by natural processes.
• There, walking on prodigious cement slabs shaped like tacks, which stopped the erosion of the beach by high tide, she turned toward ocean pointing to America and contemplated all.
• Owing to far-advanced erosion and the destruction dealt by treasure-seekers, the structural remains are very scanty indeed.
• As symmetry in material structures is a ground for strength, and hills by erosion are worn to pyramids, so it is in thoughts.
• Noble points out that the erosion caused is of a totally different kind to that of black powder.
• The erosion also extends over a shorter length of surface, and in small arms it is said to be no greater than in the case of black powder.
• In the whole of these guns, so far as I can judge, the erosion is certainly not greater than with ordinary powder, and differs from it remarkably in appearance.

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