corrade
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin corrādō (“to scrape off, abrade”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -eɪd
Verb[edit]
corrade (third-person singular simple present corrades, present participle corrading, simple past and past participle corraded)
- (obsolete) To gnaw into; to wear away
- (geology) To erode through physical or mechanical (rather than chemical) means, as the bed of a stream.
- (obsolete) To scrape or rake together; to accumulate laboriously.
Related terms[edit]
References[edit]
- “corrade”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “corrade”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.