2011-11-29

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2011-11-29 07:25 am

corrade

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.