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CORRODED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does corroded mean?
• CORRODED (adjective)
The adjective CORRODED has 1 sense:
1. eaten away as by acid or oxidation
Familiarity information: CORRODED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Eaten away as by acid or oxidation
Similar:
unsound (not in good condition; damaged or decayed)
Context examples
Device problems that occur when the device becomes worn, weakened, corroded, or broken down due to processes such as aging, permeation, and corrosion.
(Device Degradation Problem Evaluation Result, Food and Drug Administration)
Last January, rid of all mistresses—in a harsh, bitter frame of mind, the result of a useless, roving, lonely life—corroded with disappointment, sourly disposed against all men, and especially against all womankind (for I began to regard the notion of an intellectual, faithful, loving woman as a mere dream), recalled by business, I came back to England.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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