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Definition of Corrade
1. Verb. Wear away.
Specialized synonyms: Chafe, Excoriate, Rasp
Generic synonyms: Wear Away, Wear Off
Derivative terms: Abradant, Abradant, Abrader, Abrasion, Abrasion, Abrasion, Abrasive, Corrasion, Rubdown
Definition of Corrade
1. v. t. To gnaw into; to wear away; to fret; to consume.
Definition of Corrade
1. Verb. (obsolete) To gnaw into; to wear away; to fret; to consume. ¹
2. Verb. (geology) To erode, as the bed of a stream. ¹
3. Verb. (obsolete) To scrape or rake together; to accumulate laboriously. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Corrade
1. to erode [v -RADED, -RADING, -RADES] - See also: erode
Lexicographical Neighbors of Corrade
Literary usage of Corrade
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Travels Through Cyprus, Syria, and Palestine; with a General History of the by Giovanni Mariti (1792)
"... this application produced no other effect than that of irritating corrade;
... corrade had carried away, under a pretence, that, as fhe had married him ..."
2. Report on the Geology of the Henry Mountains by Clarence Edward Dutton, Grove Karl Gilbert (1880)
"A stream which for any reason is able to corrade its bottom more rapidly than do
its neighbors, expands its valley at their expense, and eventually ..."
3. Elements of Geology by Eliot Blackwelder, Harlan Harland Barrows (1911)
"Other things being equal, would a given stream corrade faster when flowing across
the edges of highly tilted beds, or on horizontal beds ? Why ? ..."
4. Geographical Essays by William Morris Davis (1909)
"The rivers and tributaries would no longer corrade their channels. The inequalities
which are due to land sculpture and the general process of erosion would ..."
5. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1823)
"General corrade, a Brazilian, was appointed to succeed him, to the great increase of
... The native Brazilian troops, under the command of general corrade, ..."
6. Physiography for High Schools by Albert Llewellyn Arey, Frank Laverne Bryant, William Wallace Clendenin, William Thomas Morrey (1911)
"This tendency of tributaries to corrade their beds at such a rate as to join
their master stream at its grade, or level, ..."
7. Physiography of the St. Louis Area by Nevin Melancthon Fenneman (1909)
"At a point near its source it may have power far in excess of that needed to
carry its sediments and so corrade its channel vigorously. ..."
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