corroding

Questions about corroding

What does corroding mean?

corroding means "erosion by chemical action".

How many syllables are in corroding?

corroding has 3 syllables: cor-ro-ding. The stress falls on "cor".

What is another word for corroding?

Close synonyms include corrosion, erosion. 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 corroding a common word?

corroding is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.