eat away

Verb

Meaning

wear away or erode

remove soil or rock

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

whittle gnaw eat eroded erode fret chew corrode corroded corroding festering fester eroding fretted abrade
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Hypernyms

damage rust corrode

Hyponyms

wash

Examples

Lies and secrets, Tessa, they are like a cancer in the soul. They eat away what is good and leave only destruction behind. Cassandra Clare

Sometimes, however, this sense of isolation, like acid spilling out of a bottle, can unconsciously eat away at a person's heart and dissolve it. Haruki Murakami

In its essence, any art that relies on words makes use of their ability to eat away - of their corrosive function - just as etching depends on the corrosive power of nitric acid. Yukio Mishima

Only if some microorganism doesn't attack these tender hothouse plants and eat away at their roots, only if they don't rot! And that can happen with pineapples! Oh, yes, indeed it can! Mikhail Bulgakov

If you want to do something to destroy consumer spending, just eat away at the middle class because the other problem we have is the structural problem of middle class America. Wilbur Ross

Rain eroded the terraces Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

eat at a leisurely pace eat at a slow in very small bites eat at a slow pace eat away at eat away at something eat badly