erosive
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- s wearing away by friction
the erosive effects of waves on the shoreline - s of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action
- But by walling off the river, trapping its sediments behind giant dams and armoring its erosive banks with concrete, the Corps inadvertently choked off the land-building process.
- For better or for worse, the world today is committed to accelerating change: radical, wrenching, erosive of both traditions and old values.
- In the Djurab, Brunet and his colleagues realized, the relentless winds would have a similar erosive effect.