eroded

Mr Scullion, who spends his days driving for the dial-a-lift service, said rural roads in Mid Ulster are "very tired" and "the edges have eroded away".

Netanyahu said in a statement his trust in Gallant had "eroded" in recent months and Foreign Minister Israel Katz would replace Gallant.

For me, that was such a useful way to think about how factuality has been eroded by originalism, and textualism, and strict construction, or whatever the theory is, because it actually isn’t fact-based; it’s guess-based or maybe Ouija board–based or séance-based, just not based in any fact.

So as millions of those ballots were methodically tallied, what had appeared to be a lead for Trump steadily eroded.

In short, we are raising a generation of children who will carry the weight of fear throughout their lives, their innocence slowly eroded by the constant threat of violence.