carcomer - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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From carcoma (“woodworm”) + -er (verbal suffix), influenced by comer (“to eat”).
carcomer (first-person singular present carcomo, first-person singular preterite carcomi, past participle carcomido)
- (transitive, also figurative) to eat away (to erode or corrode gradually)
- “carcomer”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
From carcoma (“woodworm”) + -er (verbal suffix), probably influenced by comer (“eat”).
carcomer (first-person singular present carcomo, first-person singular preterite carcomí, past participle carcomido)
- (transitive, also figurative) to eat away (to erode or corrode gradually)
- (reflexive) to waste away, to be consumed
Selected combined forms of carcomer
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
- “carcomer”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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