corroding

Oxygen is an extremely reactive chemical, corroding metals, rusting iron, and fueling fires.

It was a sobering view of how drug policies were corroding trust in the criminal-justice system.

He accused the network of systematically and intentionally corroding the values that make America a special place.

The hopeless passion ran like a corroding poison through the inflammable tissue.

He gave the others a taste by and by—a withering, corroding sup—and they derided him and rode him down.

To give it such form that it shall be durable, under the action of the hot gases and of the corroding elements of the atmosphere.

Besides you cannot calculate how much corroding rust is kept off, how much of disconsolate, dull despondency is hindered.

But a precious odor breathed from the casks, and the corroding capsules confessed the mighty powers that lurked within.