English Explanatory Dictionary

corrasion

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The diminution of wealth, etc., such as through unanticipated expenditure.
  2. The wearing away of surface material.
  3. Corrading (erosion by abrasion) caused by such as: wind-blown or water-borne sand, stream-borne or glacier-borne stones, or collisions between stones under the influence of seaside breakers.

Word forms

corrasion corrasions

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin corrasus, past participle of corradere (“to scrape together”), itself from cor- (“form of con- (“together”)”) + radere (“to scratch, scrape”).

Related words

corrade corrasive corrode rasion razor
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