Nov. 29th, 2011

corrade

Nov. 29th, 2011 07:25 am
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corrade (kuh-RAYD) - v., to wear away by abrasion.


Especially, to erode by grit carried in water, wind, or a glacier. Oddly enough, it originally meant to laboriously accumulate: borrowed in the 1610s from Latin corrādere, to scrape together, from cor-, together + rādere, to scrape.

---L.

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