Crossword-Solution: CORRODING 9 letters, 8 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

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Corroding p. pr. & vb. n. of Corrode

We have 8 clues for the answer “CORRODING”

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Destroying bit by bit 1 answer
Eating away 3 answers
Wearing down 7 answers
destroying deity 10 answers
COMBINING FORMS DESTROYING 10 answers
CAPABLE OF DESTROYING OR EATING AWAY BY CHEMICAL ACTION 10 answers
CAPABLE OF EXPELLING OR DESTROYING PARASITIC WORMS 11 answers
DESTROYING THE MORAL BASIS FOR A DOCTRINE OR POLICY 11 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETREA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CORRODING (5)

And last night I saw again what I had seen then—that strange and lovely miracle—the sweet, soft contours of early maidenhood restored by the gracious hand of death! When Jean’s mother lay dead, all trace of care, and trouble, and suffering, and the corroding years had vanished out of the face, and I was looking again upon it as I had known and worshiped it in its young bloom and beauty a whole generation before.
What Is Man? And Other Stories Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993
Yet a shadow upon youth is always more moving than the shadows of maturer years--those shadows that do not lie upon the surface but are heavy and corroding stains.
The Grain Of Dust David Graham Phillips 2004
And Susan was still in the first flush of the joy of escape from the noisome prison whose poisons had been corroding her, soul and body.
Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise David Graham Phillips 2006
She alternately considered ways of leaving Kennicott, and remembered his virtues, pitied his bewilderment in face of the subtle corroding sicknesses which he could not dose nor cut out.
Main Street Sinclair Lewis 2006
The cabman, short and broad, eyed him with his fierce little eyes that seemed to smart in a clear and corroding liquid.
The Secret Agent Joseph Conrad 1997

Quotes with CORRODING (3)

They found a coin and helped him to the telescope. He complained and insulted them, but they helped him look at each individual letter in turn. The first letter was a 'w,' the second an 'e.' Then there was a gap. An 'a' followed, then a 'p,' an 'o,' and an 'l.'Marvin paused for a rest. After a few moments they resumed and let him see the 'o,' the 'g,' the 'i,' the 'z,' and the 'e.'The next two words were 'for' and 'the.' The last one was a long one, and Marvin needed another …
Douglas Adams So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
Gormenghast. Withdrawn and ruinous it broods in umbra: the immemorial masonry: the towers, the tracts. Is all corroding? No. Through an avenue of spires a zephyr floats; a bird whistles; a freshet beats away from a choked river. Deep in a fist of stone a doll's hand wriggles, warm rebellious on the frozen palm. A shadow shifts its length. A spider stirs... And darkness winds between the characters.- Gormenghast
Mervyn Peake
Or why should one refrain from burning hatred, whatever its basis--race, class, or ideology? Such hatred is in fact corroding many hearts today. Atheist teachers in the West are bringing up a younger generation in a spirit of hatred of their own society. Amid all the vituperation we forget that the defects of capitalism represent the basic flaws of human nature, allowed unlimited freedom together with the various human rights; we forget that under Communism (and Communism is …
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Used 3 times in crossword archives (1997–2022).