Crossword-Solution: CORROSION 9 letters, 16 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Corrosion n. The action or effect of corrosive agents, or the process
of corrosive change; as, the rusting of iron is a variety of corrosion.

We have 16 clues for the answer “CORROSION”

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Chassis problem 1 answer
EARTH surface, friction wearing away the (geol.) 1 answer
Gradual decay from rusting 1 answer
Something worn on a hood 1 answer
Wearing away by chemical action 1 answer
a state of deterioration in metals caused by oxidation or chemical action 1 answer
Chemical action. 2 answers
Rust producer 2 answers
Rust, e.g. 2 answers
rubbing off 4 answers
erosion 21 answers
chafing 22 answers
Rust 25 answers
Abrasion 27 answers
rubbing 37 answers
Wear 54 answers
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One who, or that which, eats.
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greedy person
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Sentences with CORROSION (5)

Even the corrosion of the cork of an acid bottle caught his eye, and he wondered that the doctor did not use glass stoppers.
Round the Red Lamp Arthur Conan Doyle 2008
For it is plain, that every word we speak is, in some degree, a diminution of our lungs by corrosion, and, consequently, contributes to the shortening of our lives.
Gulliver’s Travels Jonathan Swift 1997
They had not in those days the art of making corrosion preparations, but they could in some way dissect to their finest ramifications the arteries, veins and nerves, which were then spread on boards and dried.
The Evolution of Modern Medicine William Osler 2006
Many of them were very old, and as timekeepers valueless; the works having suffered, more or less, from corrosion—but all were richly jeweled and in cases of great worth.
Stories by Modern American Authors Julian Hawthorne 2000
Misery is caused for the most part, not by a heavy crush of disaster, but by the corrosion of less visible evils, which canker enjoyment, and undermine security.
A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland Samuel Johnson 2005

Quotes with CORROSION (3)

He felt water run down his back from the damp brickwork he was sitting against, and as he worried distantly about corrosion he realised you can always fall a little further. A moment ago he thought he'd bottomed out, but now he was concerned about personal rust. Mother of fuck.
Christopher Brookmyre Bedlam
From the cave to the skyscraper, from the club to weapons of mass destruction, from the tautological life of the tribe to the era of globalization, the fictions of literature have multiplied human experiences, preventing us from succumbing to lethargy, self-absorption, resignation. Nothing has sown so much disquiet, so disturbed our imagination and our desires as the life of lies we add, thanks to literature, to the one we have, so we can be protagonists in the great adventur…
Mario Vargas Llosa
That was true, Iris would sometimes think, about marriage: it was only a boat, too. A wooden boat, difficult to build, even more difficult to maintain, whose beauty derived at least in part from its unlikelihood. Long ago the pragmatic justifications for both marriage and wooden-boat building had been lost or superseded. Why invest countless hours, years, and dollars in planing and carving, gluing and fastening, caulking and fairing, when a fiberglass boat can be had at a fra…
Ayelet Waldman Red Hook Road
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Appears in: Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Onion.

Used 7 times in crossword archives (1965–2023).