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SOIL EROSION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The washing away of soil by the flow of water
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("soil erosion" is a kind of...):
eating away; eroding; erosion; wearing; wearing away ((geology) the mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles washing over it))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "soil erosion"):
wash; washout (the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway))
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