OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 47844

eat away

/iːt‿əˈweɪ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
apolillar • cancerar • carcomer • chancomer • pacer • picar • reconcomer • roer
To physically corrode or erode (something) gradually.
The river bank had been eaten away over the years by the flood water.
The wearing away of rock is the work partly of the atmosphere and partly of water. The action of the atmosphere is chemical, and eats away the rock as rust eats away iron.
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