wearing+away
101Roy Drusky — Infobox musical artist | Name = Roy Drusky Img capt = Img size = Background = solo singer Birth name = Roy Frank Drusky Jr. Alias = Roy Drusky Born = birth date|1930|6|22|mf=y Died = death date (aged 74)|2004|9|23|mf=y Origin = Atlanta, Georgia… …
102declivous — adj. [L. de, away from; clivis, hill] Sloping downward; gradually descending. decollate adj. [L. de, away from; collum, neck] (MOLLUSCA: Gastropoda) Pertaining to cut or broken off, as the apex on some land gastropods; wearing away at the apex;… …
103metamorphic rock — Any of a class of rocks that result from the alteration of preexisting rocks in response to changing geological conditions, including variations in temperature, pressure, and mechanical stress. The preexisting rocks may be igneous, sedimentary,… …
104Marine habitats — Coral reefs provide marine habitats for tube sponges, which in turn become marine habitats for fishes Littoral zone …
105abrasion — Synonyms and related words: ablation, abrasive, abstraction, atomization, attrition, beating, blemish, break, brecciation, buffing, burn, burnishing, chafe, chafing, check, chip, comminution, concussion, crack, crackle, craze, crumbling, crushing …
106detriment — [15] Etymologically, detriment denotes damage caused by ‘wearing away’. The word comes via Old French from Latin dētrīmentum, a derivative of dēterere ‘wear away’ (whose past participle is the source of English detritus [18]). This was a compound …
107corrosion — n. 1. Erosion, eating away. 2. Wasting, wearing away, consuming, gnawing away. 3. Blighting, poisoning, embittering …
108crush — vb 1 Crush, mash, smash, bruise, squash, macerate are comparable when they mean to reduce or be reduced to a pulpy or broken mass. Crush implies a compressing between two hard or resistant surfaces that succeeds, usually, in destroying the shape… …
109diminution — n 1. reduction, cutback, lessening, diminishing, decrement, abatement, decrease, retrenchment; contraction, shrinking, shrinkage, constriction, constricting, narrowing; condensation, compression, shortening, abridgment, abbreviation, curtailment …
110erode — /əˈroʊd / (say uh rohd), /i / (say ee ) verb (t) (eroded, eroding) 1. to eat out or away; destroy by slow consumption. 2. to form (a channel, etc.) by eating or wearing away (used especially in geology, to denote the action of all the forces of… …
