Verb (used with object) : Jealousy corroded his character. From Dictionary.com.
These pots are placed close together on a bed of tan bark on the floor of a room known as the corroding room. From Wordnik.com. [An Elementary Study of Chemistry] Reference
Also corroding the wiring and plumbing in their homes. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 26, 2009] Reference
It kept his heart from corroding, or becoming entirely cold. From Wordnik.com. [Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue] Reference
It's also destroying electrical wiring and corroding metal throughout her home. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 24, 2009] Reference
The drywall had been imported from China and was giving off metal-corroding gases. From Wordnik.com. [Chinese-made drywall causing home and health hazards] Reference
"You don't mean to say you used the tin pans for any thing as corroding as tomatoes!". From Wordnik.com. [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference
The preparation of a library well calculated to withstand the corroding tooth of time. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American, Volume XXXVI., No. 8, February 24, 1877 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.] Reference
Unfortunately, one of their visitors cast into their new life a drop of corroding bitterness. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Affinities of History — Complete] Reference
And all of them tried in vain to fight down the hunger pangs that were corroding at their insides. From Wordnik.com. [Cum Grano Salis] Reference
Their machinery is driven by a hundred horse-power engine, and four hundred corroding pots are run. From Wordnik.com. [Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men] Reference
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday passed, and George was still the victim to anxiety and corroding care. From Wordnik.com. [Life in London or, the Pitfalls of a Great City] Reference
RENSHON: Well, it's corroding it, and it's very corrosive to attachments to the American national identity. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 10, 2005] Reference
They seemed to be made of metal, for, though quite strong, they were covered inside and out with corroding rust. From Wordnik.com. [The American Family Robinson or, The Adventures of a Family lost in the Great Desert of the West] Reference
We will show you the fever and the heartache, the corroding care and the panting labor which oppress life in Paris. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863] Reference
But a precious odor breathed from the casks, and the corroding capsules confessed the mighty powers that lurked within. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
These latter were engraved on the palms of his hands, and written with corroding ink on the fleshly tables of his heart. From Wordnik.com. [Lancashire Idylls (1898)] Reference
Government of 'free, happy America,' in the midst of examples like these, to be fastening corroding chains upon human beings?. From Wordnik.com. [Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men] Reference
Indolence is a rust, corroding and dulling all our faculties; earnestness, a vitalizing force, quickening and brightening them. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Character] Reference
They had Chinese drywall installed, corroding pipes, corroding electrical wires, also causing some health problems, potentially. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 24, 2009] Reference
The blasting influence of more than dramatic justice, or of corroding infamy, seemed to reach every branch of this devoted family. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.] Reference
Because AT&T was betting its future on cable and its long-distance business was visibly corroding, the logical thing to sell was Wireless. From Wordnik.com. [A SUDDEN DISCONNECT] Reference
There is a corroding matter generated in the internal sore, and that runs down under the skin, and keeps cutting its way out at the wound. From Wordnik.com. [Papers on Health] Reference
His left hand was very severely affected with several corroding ulcers, and a tumour of considerable size appeared in the axilla of that side. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
This sense of splendid unity in which all the divisive and corroding elements of selfhood are obliterated has "to those who have been there" no refutation. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
The voice of running water was heard everywhere, betraying the proximity of the little stream by whose ceaseless corroding the cave and its entrance had been worn. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools] Reference
More than 2,000 homeowners from 32 states have reported to the CPSC that the drywall in their homes is corroding their electrical equipment and/or making them sick. From Wordnik.com. [Drywall task force finds "strong association" between chemicals and corrosion] Reference
In Minnesota the number of "structurally deficient" bridges — featuring, for instance, corroding steel supports — actually rose from 1,156 in 2007 to 1,206 last year. From Wordnik.com. [More Bad Bridges in Minnesota] Reference
For nothing is so pitiful and so abhorrent, as the worship of wealth, and the selfishness that eats like a corroding poison into the purer metal of the rich man's nature. From Wordnik.com. [The Mystery of a Turkish Bath] Reference
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