<p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) to eat into or away; destroy by slow consumption or disintegration: Battery acid had eroded the engine.</li><li>Inflation erodes the value of our money.</li><li>Synonyms: spoil, ravage, waste, corrode.</li><li>Antonyms: reinforce, strengthen.</li><li>to form (a gully, butte, or the like) by erosion.</li><li>(used without object) to become eroded.</li></ul>