corrade

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To gnaw into; to wear away
  2. To erode through physical or mechanical (rather than chemical) means, as the bed of a stream.
  3. To scrape or rake together; to accumulate laboriously.

Word forms

corrade corrades corrading corraded

Etymology

From Latin corrādō (“to scrape off, abrade”).

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