Archaic or alternate third-person form of 'corrode'; it gradually destroys or wears away materials.
Archaic or variant conjugation of 'corrode' from Latin 'corrodere.' Appears in older English texts, particularly from the 17th-18th centuries, reflecting different conjugation patterns before modern standardization.
This is what language archaeology looks like—'corrodies' shows up in texts by Isaac Newton and Robert Boyle discussing chemical experiments, but it lost out to 'corrodes' as English standardized its verb forms!
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