erosively

English

Etymology

erosive +‎ -ly

Adverb

erosively (comparative more erosively, superlative most erosively)

1. Through erosion.
   • 1856, Edwin Lees, Pictures of Nature in the Silurian Region Around the Malvern Hills and Vale of Severn:

     Ages have passed since the salt waters of the Severn estuary pressed on into the heart of England, and cut erosively the Red Sandstone cliffs of Bridgnorth, still scored with their water-marks.