Antonyms for eat away

Grammar : Verb

Spell : eet

Phonetic Transcription : it

Definition of eat away

Origin : "food," in use mid-19c. in U.S., considered colloquial, but the same construction with the same meaning was present in Old English.

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

Example sentences :

Then thou art all safe; so eat away, and leave the rest to me.
Extract from : « Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II (of II) » by Charles James Lever

At the present rate of erosion it takes 2,640 years to eat away a mile.
Extract from : « Evening Round Up » by William Crosbie Hunter

If you keep on gaping at her she will eat away all your insides.
Extract from : « Foma Gordyeff » by Maxim Gorky

Do they eat holes through the leaf, or do they eat away the entire leaf?
Extract from : « An Elementary Study of Insects » by Leonard Haseman

Let it eat away the dead oak, but let it not be compared with the living one.
Extract from : « Imaginary Conversations and Poems » by Walter Savage Landor

He could but eat away his own heart in despair, a ruined man.
Extract from : « The Expositor's Bible » by F. W. Farrar

And here, too, they eat away the floes and hollow out their edges.
Extract from : « Farthest North » by Fridtjof Nansen

At the present rate of erosion, it takes 2,640 years to eat away a mile.
Extract from : « Think » by Col. Wm. C. Hunter

The men, considering that they had done quite enough in killing it, returned to smoke and eat away the fatigues of the chase.
Extract from : « The Dog Crusoe and his Master » by R.M. Ballantyne

The feeding tips of roots secrete acids that eat away lime and other substances that occur in rocks.
Extract from : « Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know » by Julia Ellen Rogers

Synonyms for eat away

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