Lose underpinnings, e.g

Usage examples of erode.

The absolutist and patrimonial model survived in this period only with the support of a specific compromise of political forces, and its substance was eroding from the inside owing primarily to the emergence of new productive forces.

Tuff is much softer than basalt and andesite, and over the years this exposed layer has eroded away, leaving us with our wonderful hotel.

All around them were the many-colored rocks of the continental roots and glistening, fantastically eroded shapes of salt and anhydrite and gypsum.

Hand had painted them there and soft cliffs eroded with a hundred tiny cavelets along their faces.

Saddam again began to feel that the pressure was unbearable, especially as the value of the dinar continued to erode in June and July.

Zhirrzh history, threatening to erode the sense that Eldership is an absolute right that cannot be altered or taken away.

The etchant eroded crystalline sealant, staining the corroded surface in green, orange, violet.

But immediately after the young mountains were born, the rain and the glaciers had begun their work, gouging and eroding, washing the mountains back to the sea: On this turbulent planet, rock flowed like water, and mountain ranges rose and fell like dreams.

Even at a fast walk it would be more than two hours before they reached the eroded artificial hill where the Big House at Hyve had stood.

Lombo scooped Nacker up in an arm and led the procession that wound up the hill, through alleys and unpaved streets with eroded gullies on either side.

It sends in the first aid crew to revegetate the area and cover the poor oxidizing and eroding, bare soil.

More stone monuments dotted the landscapes, ages old, their circular signs eroded by weather or ripicolous lichens.

One of my favorite rides was to go down through the sammit fields to the much eroded badlands at the northwestern edge of the Demesne where the flood-chucks were at work.

By the landmarks she gives him - a vegetable stand, a pond rimmed with willows, a double silo close to the road - he feels his way through the tummocks and swales of red earth crowded with shimmering green growth, merciless vegetation that allows not even the crusty eroded road embankments to rest barren but makes them bear tufts and mats of vetch and honeysuckle vines and fills the stagnant hot air with the haze of exhaled vapor.

One after another they found them, the rock face eroded in a pattern like an ear of ripe wheat, the hundred-foot-tall fir, dead some twenty years at least, that still stood stark and black on a hill top, an enormous boulder split by ancient ice with a young tree growing twixt the two halves.