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81erosion — Synonyms and related words: ablation, abrading, abrasion, abrasive, absorption, abstraction, assimilation, atomization, attrition, breakup, buffing, burning up, burnishing, chafe, chafing, consumption, corroding, corrosion, crumbling, decay,… …
82death — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Absence of life Nouns 1. death, expiration, decease, demise, the grave, the narrow bed, one s latter end; end, cessation; loss, extinction, or ebb of life, mortality experience; dissolution, departure,… …
83corrosion — n 1. gnawing, eating out or away, consumption, consuming, devouring, corroding, rusting, Both Chem. oxidation, oxidizing; erosion, eroding, attrition, detrition, wearing, wearing down or away, wear and tear, wasting away; abrasion, abrading,… …
84corrosive — adj 1. caustic, mordant, cauterant, es charotic, acrid, acrimonious, acid, acidic, cankerous; sharp, biting, gnawing, eating out or away, consumptive, consuming, devouring; corroding, rusting, Both Chem. oxidative, oxidizing. 2. erosive, erodent …
85decrease — v 1. diminish, lessen, reduce, lower, abate, bate; contract, shrink, constrict, narrow; cut, pare, prune, truncate, crop, lop, dock, clip; condense, cut down, compress, shorten, abridge, scale down, boil down; abbreviate, curtail, cut short. 2.… …
86ebb — n 1. reflux, refluence, flowing back, receding, recession, retrocession; outflow, outflux; ebb tide, low tide, low water, neap tide, neap. 2. decline, wane, fall off, subsidence; decay, erosion, wasting away, dying out, weakening, falling;… …
87erosion — n 1. wearing, wearing down or away, wear and tear, wasting away, washing away, wash out, eroding, detrition, attrition; corrosion, corroding, fretting, gnawing, consumption, consuming, devouring, eating out or away; abrasion, abrading, rubbing… …
88Consumption — Con*sump tion (?; 215), n. [L. consumptio: cf. F. consomption.] 1. The act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc.; decay; destruction. [1913 Webster] Every new advance of the price to the consumer is a new incentive to him to retrench the… …
89Consumption of the bowels — Consumption Con*sump tion (?; 215), n. [L. consumptio: cf. F. consomption.] 1. The act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc.; decay; destruction. [1913 Webster] Every new advance of the price to the consumer is a new incentive to him to… …
90Decline — De*cline , n. [F. d[ e]clin. See {Decline}, v. i.] 1. A falling off; a tendency to a worse state; diminution or decay; deterioration; also, the period when a thing is tending toward extinction or a less perfect state; as, the decline of life; the …
