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Definition of the day : « eating away »
- As in acid : adj having acidic, corrosive properties
- As in erosion : noun deterioration; wearing away
- As in undermine : verb weaken
- As in waste : verb spend or use without thought; dwindle
- As in whittle : verb cut away at; reduce
- As in gnaw : verb bite, chew
- Here it rests for a time, eating away at the best it can find.
- Extract from : « The Story of the Cotton Plant » by Frederick Wilkinson
- For about a minute I was the busiest thing that ever happened, eating away.
- Extract from : « The Man Upstairs » by P. G. Wodehouse
- Hunger was eating away his mental as well as his physical fiber.
- Extract from : « The Scouts of the Valley » by Joseph A. Altsheler
- Rouletabille was eating away now at strange viands that it would have been difficult for him to name.
- Extract from : « The Secret of the Night » by Gaston Leroux
- Into this crack the heavy rain of the night had swept, eating away the last puny tie which held the two parts together.
- Extract from : « A Summer's Outing » by Carter H. Harrison
- Suffering, crushing, unmerited suffering, eating away the poor empty life.
- Extract from : « The Confounding of Camelia » by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
- In pathology, a disease affecting the skin, remarkable for eating away the parts which it attacks with extreme rapidity.
- Extract from : « Cooley's Practical Receipts, Volume II » by Arnold Cooley
- In fact the sea is eating away the land much faster than the river can build it up.
- Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 » by Various
- A soft south wind was blowing, eating away the remaining patches of snow; the sky was full of fleecy clouds.
- Extract from : « A Little Journey in the World » by Charles Dudley Warner
- She seated herself close to her children, and was eating away when her brother came round serving ghee.
- Extract from : « Deccan Nursery Tales » by Charles Augustus Kincaid