Crossword-Solution: CORROSION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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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”
| Clue | Answers |
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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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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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…
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Appears in: Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Onion.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1965–2023).