Extended Open Multilingual Wordnet 1.3

13475538-n 'the mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles washing over it)';

Chinese (simplified)	侵蚀 , 腐蚀
English	erosion ₁ ( ⊳ ) , wearing , eroding ( ⊳ ) , eating away , wearing away ( ⊳ )
Indonesian	pelapukan
Japanese	侵食 , 侵蝕 , 浸食 , 浸蝕

Definitions

Japanese: 何かを磨滅または摩る技術的過程（それを摩耗させる粒子によって）
English: the mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles washing over it)

Relations

Hyponym:	ablation abrasion beach_erosion chatter_mark deflation planation soil_erosion
Hypernym:	geological_process
Domain–Category:	geology
Semantic Field:	process_n

External Links

TempoWN: ◀ △ ▷ (Past: 0.090; Present: 0.037; Future: 0.000)

SentiWN: △ ▽ (+0.00 -0.00) MLSentiCon: ▲ ▼ (+0.12 -0.12)