Crossword clues for erosive
erosive
- Causing decay
- Causing corrosion
- Tending to wear down
- Tending to wear away
- Damaging, in a way
- Wearing away by friction
- Wearing like wind or water
- Tending to eat away
- Prone to wearing
- Prone to wear
- Like waves, to shorelines
- Like waves vis-à-vis the shoreline
- Like waves on a shore
- Like swift streams
- Like glaciers and waves
- Causing deterioration
- Apt to wear
- Wearing down
- Like rushing water
- Like running water
- Like wind and water
- Like the wind
- Like waves on a shoreline
- Like swift streams, to a shoreline
- Like waves vis-Г -vis the shoreline
- Corrodible
- Like wind and rain
- Soil exposing
- Causing to rust
- Causing disintegration
- Causing wear
- Tending to abrade
- Wearing retro Levis or elegant clothes
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Erosive \E*ro"sive\, a.
That erodes or gradually eats away; tending to erode;
corrosive.
--Humble.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1725, of tumors, etc.; 1827 in geology, from eros-, past participle stem of Latin erodere "gnaw away" (see erode) + -ive.
Wiktionary
a. 1 of or pertaining to erosion 2 causing or tending to cause erosion
WordNet
Usage examples of "erosive".
Craters with slumped walls, with modest depth-to-diameter ratios, with fine particles accumulated in their interiors tend to be more ancient, because they had to be around long enough for these erosive processes to come into play.
Looking up at immense ancient buildings whose soaring stone facades had been carved by the virulent erosive air and acid rains into a phantasmagoria of accidental Gothic parapets and turrets and pinnacles and asymmetrical spires.
When the four moons got together and started to pull they would raise a tremendous mass of water, a grinding power that would slice away the continent edges like no erosive force in history.
Fifteen paces on, they stumbled into an outcropping of quartzite or some other crystalline mineral that resisted the erosive wind.
Up close in this light, indifferent to human chronologies and subject only to the slow erosive forces of geological time, it reared above me like a frowning, terrifying crag.
This was standard procedure: if you found gold or diamonds in streambeds, you moved upstream toward the presumed erosive source of the minerals.