corrade

verb — 3 senses

verb

Etymology Borrowed from Latin corrādō (“to scrape off, abrade”).

Obsolete To gnaw into; to wear away

Geography, Geology, Natural sciences To erode through physical or mechanical (rather than chemical) means, as the bed of a stream.

Obsolete To scrape or rake together; to accumulate laboriously.

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