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erosion

/ih-roh-zhuhn/US // ɪˈroʊ ʒən //UK // (ɪˈrəʊʒən) //

侵蚀,冲蚀,侵蚀作用,腐蚀

Related Words

disintegration瓦解,解体,分解,崩解corrosion腐蚀,腐蚀性,腐蚀作用,腐蚀问题decrease减少,降低,下降,下跌destruction毁灭,销毁,破坏,毁坏despoliation脱贫,灭亡,灭贫,脱贫攻坚consumption消费量,消费,消耗,消费品abrasion磨损,擦伤,耐磨性,磨蚀wear穿着,磨损,穿戴,磨损程度attrition自然减员,减员,耗损,流失spoiling溺爱,破坏性,捣乱,宠爱eating away吃掉了,吃掉,吃饭了,吃掉的

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act or state of eroding; state of being eroded.
    • : the process by which the surface of the earth is worn away by the action of water, glaciers, winds, waves, etc.
    • : the gradual decline or disintegration of something: Each candidate is blaming the other’s party for the erosion of international trade.

Synonyms & Antonyms

noundeterioration; wearing away
Synonyms
corrosion腐蚀,腐蚀性,腐蚀作用,腐蚀问题decrease减少,降低,下降,下跌destruction毁灭,销毁,破坏,毁坏disintegration瓦解,解体,分解,崩解abrasion磨损,擦伤,耐磨性,磨蚀attrition自然减员,减员,耗损,流失consumption消费量,消费,消耗,消费品despoliation脱贫,灭亡,灭贫,脱贫攻坚spoiling溺爱,破坏性,捣乱,宠爱wear穿着,磨损,穿戴,磨损程度desedimentation沉淀,沉降,脱盐,沉淀物eating away吃掉了,吃掉,吃饭了,吃掉的grinding down碾压,磨掉了,磨掉,磨碎了washing away洗去,洗涤,冲刷,洗净wearing down消磨,消损,消磨掉,消减

Examples

  • More than $40 trillion of retirement savings is at risk of erosion if inflation returns.

  • A ProPublica-Texas Tribune investigation found that the Rio Grande Valley project suffered from major erosion just months after it was finished.

  • A ProPublica-Tribune investigation found that the Rio Grande Valley project suffered from major erosion just months after it was finished.

  • The research team examined 10,276 individual valleys found in 66 valley networks on Mars, using custom-built algorithms to group them and infer what kind of erosion processes formed them.

  • Additionally, over the last 20 million years, the building of the Himalayas, Andes, Alps and other mountains has more than doubled erosion rates, boosting weathering.

  • Focus on the gays—not on the economy, the erosion of civil society, or the lack of democracy.

  • The more socially conservative libertarian-conservatives worry about family cohesion and erosion of religious belief.

  • And the health law might not prohibit it, opening a door to potential erosion of employer-based coverage.

  • While not as bad as some environmentalists have expected, there is beach erosion.

  • The result is a continual erosion of the business—fewer subscriptions sold, fewer print ads sold, even as costs rise annually.

  • Nowhere perhaps has the great water erosion of bygone aeons wrought more grotesquely and fantastically than in the Moqui basin.

  • This erosion had been carried along the cañon on an even line of altitude as far as the softer layer extended.

  • On steep slopes a certain number of trees must be left to protect the watershed and to prevent the erosion of the soil.

  • Its substance is well preserved; the surface was once highly polished, but now is pitted by erosion and discolored by age.

  • Sastrugi, only six inches high, seen on the 26th, showed the effects of wind-erosion exquisitely.

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