reerode

English

Etymology

re- +‎ erode

Verb

reerode (third-person singular simple present reerodes, present participle reeroding, simple past and past participle reeroded)

  1. To erode again.
    • 1973, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services, Research and development, page 2887:
      Gradually they reerode and need to be replaced from time to time.
    • 1974, A. P. Schick, Geomorphic processes in arid environments, page 99:
      The leached loess may subsequently reerode by water.
    • 2012, Wilfried Michaelis, Estuarine Water Quality Management: Monitoring, Modelling and Research, →ISBN:
      If bioturbation is not present, the newly deposited material stays at the bed surface. The winter storms will then be able to reerode it and to transport it to the Norwegian trench.
    • 2017, JaVee, What Does GOD Do All Day?, →ISBN:
      Consequently, constructing fabricated beaches or replenishing eroded beaches that ocean currents swiftly reerode are profligate colossal wastefulness of public resources and time.

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