OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 22979

erosion

/əˈɹoʊʒən/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
erosión
The result of having been worn away or eroded, as by a glacier on rock or the sea on a cliff face.
Even second-generation biofuels, made from crop wastes or wood, are an environmental disaster, either extending the cultivated area or removing the straw and stovers which protect…
Father Ted: The cliffs were gone? How could they just disappear? Dougal: Erosion.
erosión
The changing of a surface by mechanical action, friction, thermal expansion contraction, or impact.
erosión
Destruction by abrasive action of fluids.
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