erosion

Converse of object

• prevent: They are intended to prevent erosion - please keep to them.
• accelerate: Soot blowing is carried out twice weekly, although there are concerns that the steam may accelerate erosion of the boiler tube surfaces.
• localize: Some areas of localized severe erosion were nonetheless reported by Hutchinson ( 1965 ).

Adjective modifier

• coastal: Measures or policies taken to address coastal erosion or flooding can often pose a new risk to historic assets.
• glacial: Although there is no direct evidence of glacial erosion, the area would have been covered during the Ice Age.
• gradual: To listen to her music is to bear witness to a gradual erosion of personality.
• accelerated: Environmental problems The main environmental problem is accelerated soil erosion.
• fluvial: Climate change, river flow extremes and fluvial erosion - scenarios for England and Wales.
• cervical: You do need an examination to exclude the possibility of a cervical erosion, or perhaps there may be a polyp.

Modifies a noun

scar: The erosion scars of paths, however, suffer constant trampling pressure; with no opportunities for re-vegetation they will only get worse.

Noun used with modifier

• soil: The result is massive soil erosion: every year about 15,000 acres of fertile topsoil are washed away in Haiti.
• shoreface: Littoral drift rates and volumes should be estimated using details of cliff, and shoreface erosion inputs and beach volume changes.
• cavitation: Those in the Scottish Region had suffered more from crankcase cavitation erosion due to water problems.
• cliff: Research is being carried out into developing methods of slowing the rate of cliff erosion without damaging the SSSI.
• peat: The blanket peat erosion in parts of the Semer Water catchment is typical of many parts of the Pennines.
• gully: The fact sheet includes information on, how gullies develop, triggers for development, prevention measures and controlling gully erosion.

Preposition: in

coveragethis: Remain ineligible for of poor families erosion in coveragethis.

Preposition: of

• liberty: This conference is outraged by the erosion of civil liberties threatened by the measures contained in the Prevention of Terrorism Bill.
• sovereignty: Down one lane lies supranationalism and the erosion of sovereignty and the nation state.
• cliff: Erosion of the cliffs produces large blocks of sandstone that litter the beaches at the foot of the cliffs.