to wear away by the action of water, wind, glacial ice, etc
to eat into slowly and destructively
to diminish or destroy by degrees
to wear (something) away by the action of water, wind, glacial ice, etc
to eat into (something) slowly and destructively
to diminish or destroy (something) by degrees
He's been eroding her confidence
to produce or form (something) by eroding
to be eroded
erodible adj
[Latin erodere to eat away, from ex-1 + rodere to gnaw]