Crossword-Solution: ERODE 5 letters, 490 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Erode	v. t.	To eat into or away; to corrode; as, canker erodes the flesh.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
ERODE	anagram	DOREE, OREED, ROEDE

We have 490 clues for the answer “ERODE”

Clue	Answers
A hurricane may do this to a beach	1 answer
Adversely affect, as one's confidence	1 answer
Affect by constantly running against, say	1 answer
Alter, as a shoreline	1 answer
Antonym of "accrue"	1 answer
Batter a beach, perhaps	1 answer
Be slowly destroyed	1 answer
Become eaten away	1 answer
Become ground down	1 answer
Become more rounded, maybe	1 answer
Become weatherworn	1 answer
Become worn away	1 answer
Become worn down	1 answer
Begin to decay	1 answer
Blow away, maybe	1 answer
Blow away, say	1 answer
Break down bit by bit	1 answer
Break down gradually	1 answer
Break down over time	1 answer
Break down slowly	1 answer
Break down, like a glacier's surroundings	1 answer
Carve a canyon	1 answer
Cause decay	1 answer
Cause to decay	1 answer
Cause to gradually vanish	1 answer
Chip away at, as confidence	1 answer
Chip away slowly	1 answer
Chip away, as support	1 answer
Create a canyon	1 answer
Create a gorge	1 answer
Create chasms	1 answer
Crumble away gradually	1 answer
Crumble gradually	1 answer
Crumble into the sea	1 answer
Crumble into the sea, as shoreline	1 answer
Crumble over time	1 answer
Crumble slowly	1 answer
Crumble to the sea	1 answer
Crumble to the sea, as shoreline	1 answer
Crumble, as support	1 answer
DESTROY surface of	1 answer
Decay by degrees	1 answer
Decay or vanish gradually	1 answer
Decrease, as confidence	1 answer
Decrease, as popularity	1 answer
Decrease, as support	1 answer
Degrade gradually	1 answer
Deplete slowly	1 answer
Destroy bit by bit	1 answer
Destroy by degrees	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

RTEEA

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with ERODE (5)

The biggest danger is that soaring unemployment in eastern Germany, which could climb to the 30 to 40% range, could touch off labor disputes or renewed mass relocation to western Germany and erode investor confidence in eastern Germany.

The 1991 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 1992

Les traits peints, vus dans leurs details, presentent l'aspect erode caracteristique des peintures anciennes, meme celles apparemment les mieux conservees.

French Cave Paintings Jean Clottes 1995

Continuing economic recovery in Western Europe should boost Czech exports and production but a substantial increase in prices could erode the Republic's comparative advantage in low wages and exchange rates.

The 1995 CIA World Factbook United States Central Intelligence Agency 1996

But the upper bowlder clay no less conclusively shows that once more the climate became cold, and ice overflowed all the lowlands and buried under a new accumulation of bowlder clay such parts of the old land surface as it did not erode.

The Prehistoric World E. A. Allen 2001

Streams TRANSPORT the waste of the land; they wear, or ERODE, their channels both on bed and banks; and they DEPOSIT portions of their load from time to time along their courses, finally laying it down in the sea.

The Elements of Geology William Harmon Norton 2003

Quotes with ERODE (3)

The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain will erode the deeds of his life. But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge that he will effect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate.

Cormac McCarthy Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West

We take a cavalier approach to Scripture at our own peril. If the scientific and historical accounts are true, then the commandments, promises and penalties are much more so. The Bible is not just a guideline. It is the authoritative Word of God. Disobeying it has consequences. Obeying it has rewards. Yet we fudge. We compromise. We rationalize. We trade away our spiritual integrity for man’s approval and as we do, we gradually erode our ability to distinguish right from wron…

Craig Olson

When we tend to be too hard on those we love, we erode the softness of our souls in the process, taking out the humanity within us that is the nucleus of our goodness, even if our actions are for their own sake.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando The Girl on the Trail

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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, TIME, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 1,452 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).