Usually means: Wear away by natural forces.
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  1. erode: Merriam-Webster
  2. erode: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. erode: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. erode: Collins English Dictionary
  5. erode: Vocabulary.com
  6. Erode, erode: Wordnik
  7. erode: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. erode: Wiktionary
  9. erode: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. erode: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. erode: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. erode: Dictionary.com
  13. erode: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. erode: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Erode (Lok Sabha constituency), Erode (state assembly constituency), Erode: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Erode: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. erode: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. erode: Rhymezone
  19. erode: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. erode: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. erode: FreeDictionary.org
  22. erode: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. erode: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. erode: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. erode: Legal dictionary
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Erode: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. erode: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. erode: Medical dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. erode: Canadian Soil Information System
  3. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See eroded as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  To wear away by abrasion, corrosion, or chemical reaction.
verb:  (figurative) To destroy gradually by an ongoing process.

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