corrode

Other forms of corrode

past tense

corroded·

present participle

corroding·

third person

corrodes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about corrode

What does corrode mean?

corrode means "cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in corrode?

corrode has 2 syllables: cor-rode. The stress falls on "rode". In IPA it is /kɚˈoʊd/.

What is another word for corrode?

Close synonyms include eat, rust, rust. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is corrode a common word?

corrode is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with corrode?

3 words rhyme with corrode. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.