浸食・浸蝕|しんしょくshinshoku[0]heiban (flat)

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Which spelling to use
浸食浸食 is the most common written form and the recommended choice for beginners when writing this word.
浸蝕浸蝕 is a rarely used written form; you may encounter it, but choose 浸食 instead when writing as a beginner.
Definitions
  1. noun, suru verb, transitive verb, geologyerosion; corrosion
Conjugation
Dictionary form浸食する(しんしょくする)
Polite (masu)浸食します(しんしょくします)
Negative (nai)浸食しない(しんしょくしない)
polite (masen)浸食しません(しんしょくしません)
classical zu / nu浸食せず・浸食せぬ(しんしょくせず・しんしょくせぬ)
Past (ta)浸食した(しんしょくした)
polite (mashita)浸食しました(しんしょくしました)
Past negative (nakatta)浸食しなかった(しんしょくしなかった)
polite (masen deshita)浸食しませんでした(しんしょくしませんでした)
Te form浸食して(しんしょくして)
Potential浸食できる(しんしょくできる)
Passive浸食される(しんしょくされる)
Causative浸食させる(しんしょくさせる)
Causative passive浸食させられる(しんしょくさせられる)
Conditional (ba)浸食すれば(しんしょくすれば)
tara浸食したら(しんしょくしたら)
Volitional浸食しよう(しんしょくしよう)
polite (mashou)浸食しましょう(しんしょくしましょう)
Imperative浸食しろ(しんしょくしろ)

Common forms generated by rule; see the senses for honorific or irregular usage.

Synonyms & antonyms
  • Synonym侵食しんしょくWrittenWritten/formal prose. Also means erosion, but extends to encroaching on territory or markets, as in 「市場を侵食」; geography writing now often uses this form.
  • Antonym堆積たいせきWrittenWritten/formal prose. The piling up of earth and sand — the reverse of 「浸食」, which wears land and rock away.
  • Antonym沈殿ちんでんWrittenWritten/formal prose. Matter in a liquid settling to the bottom; the opposite of 「浸食」, and mostly a chemistry term.

Use 「浸食」 for water or wind gradually wearing away land and rock, as in 「川の浸食作用」; for encroachment on territory or markets write 「侵食」; for earth and sand piling up use 「堆積」.

Usage comparisons are AI-assisted and cross-checked by multiple models; for study reference only

Japanese definitions
  1. 水みずや風かぜなどが陸地りくちや岩石がんせきを次第しだいに削り取けずりとっていくこと。
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