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What does corrasion mean?

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Noun
  1. (obsolete) The diminution of wealth, etc., such as through unanticipated expenditure.
  2. The wearing away of surface material.
  3. (geology) Corrading (erosion by abrasion) caused by such as: wind-blown or water-borne sand, stream-borne or glacier-borne stones, or collisions between stones under the influence of seaside breakers.
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The powers of erosion are far slower than those of corrasion, especially in an arid region, because they are intermittent.
The ground defied the Council. It changed in sped-up corrasion, in the buckling of tectonics at some psychotic rate as if time was untethered from its rules.
Abrasion or corrasion is caused by waves launching seaload at the cliff.
Accurate data on the rate of corrasion would be very helpful in determining whether treatment is an urgent priority.
The solution effected by the waters of a stream may also be regarded as a part of corrasion.
These broad canyons, or canyon valleys, are carved by the streams in obedience to an interesting law of corrasion.

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