"corroded" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to when metals become chemically deteriorated due to being exposed to water or air. Example: The metal bridge had been corroded over time due to years of exposure to the elements.
Years of publicity about settlement expansion, the poor living conditions on the West Bank and in Gaza, and an apartheid legal system in the occupied territories, had corroded the instinctive social democratic sympathy for the Jewish state.
It's been a burgeoning racket for 30 years, since the Reagan-Thatcher reversal of the postwar social democratic consensus, and it's got so badly out of hand that it has corroded social cohesion and stuffed chunks of the economy.
Disturbed areas are often cursed with politicians who exploit violence for electoral gain and with institutions, such as the police, that have been corroded by politics and patronage.Ashutosh Varshney, a professor at the University of Michigan, points out in a new book that levels of communal violence vary widely among Indian states (see chart).
The wrought-iron party discipline forged by Mr Aznar has corroded.
Democracy has increasingly been corroded by militarism and jawing about a liberation struggle most Ugandans are too young to remember.
AS YOUNG advisers in the 1990s, David Cameron and George Osborne watched from the inside as sleaze corroded the last Conservative government.
Too much immigration and too little integration have, they suggest, combined to erode social cohesion, undermine national identity and corrode public trust.
It also corrodes the international rule of law and violates Australia's international law obligations.
Iron cramps and bars intended to strengthen it were also corroding and fracturing the stone.
So, the last film was about a young stripper who desperately wanted to escape the business that was slowly corroding his soul.
Furthermore, the sort of nationalism that begets it corrodes the very globalisation that Carnegie would have recognised as a source of the greater prosperity.Bessemer unconvertedAlmost everywhere you look, some government or other is moaning about nasty "foreign" takeovers.
