Antonyms for eating away

Grammar : Adj, noun, verb

Spell : eet

Phonetic Transcription : it

Definition of eating 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 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

Example sentences :

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

Synonyms for eating away

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