Erosion [noun]

Definition of Erosion:

deterioration; wearing away

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Sentence/Example of Erosion:

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.

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.