corrode

It would be tempting, at this point, to say that the Internet will corrode religious authority and usher in the Great Secular Age.

They can corrode through whatever human tissue they contact if swallowed or stuck into an orifice, sometimes in a matter of hours.

Throwing hot fat into your trash can will melt the bag, and pouring it down the sink will corrode the pipes.

Quakers are diligent; they help one another, and the fear of want does not corrode their minds.

You take it for granted that metals corrode, coastlines change, and storms interfere with communication.

Again, a cylinder oil should not have any acid in it which would have a tendency to corrode the metal.

It needed but a little of the splendour and luxury of an oriental court to corrode the old iron of the Spartan character.

If it would corrode it would be valueless for many of the uses to which it is put.