Crossword-Solution: EROSIVE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Erosive | a. | That erodes or gradually eats away; tending to erode; corrosive. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EETAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with EROSIVE (5)
And, beginning at the edge of it, grew the grass—sweet, soft, tender, pasture grass that would have delighted the eyes and beasts of any husbandman and that extended, on and on, for leagues and leagues of velvet verdure, to the backbone of the great island, the towering mountain range flung up by some ancient earth-cataclysm, serrated and gullied but not yet erased by the erosive tropic rains.
The coral polyp seems to be doing only desultory work, and that mostly on the northeast or Atlantic side of the islands; everywhere else it has abandoned the field to the erosive action of the waves.
They who have formed the most exalted conceptions of the erosive energy of moving ice do not deny that during the period termed “Glacial” there have been movements of the earth’s crust sufficient to produce oscillations of level in Europe amounting to 1000 feet or more in both directions.
Even when gathered into definite channels, ground water does not have the erosive power of surface streams, since it carries with it little or no rock waste.
Does the outflowing stream, from a lake carry sediment? How does this fact affect its erosive power on hard rock? on loose material? Lake Geneva is a well-known example of a lake in process of obliteration.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 54 times in crossword archives (1946–2023).