eat away in English

gnaw at, nibble away at, erode

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1. That rot is going to eat away your hearts.

2. 18 synonyms for Corrode: eat away, waste, consume, corrupt, deteriorate, erode, rust, gnaw, oxidize

3. Few things can ‘eat away’ at the foundation of family happiness as much as this does.

4. Corrode verb eat away, waste, consume, corrupt, deteriorate, erode, rust, gnaw, oxidize Engineers found that the structure had been Corroded by moisture

5. Corrode means to eat away at and cause to deteriorate, like rust slowly taking over an old bike left out in the rain

6. (Cytoplasmic: characterized by the formation of large vacuoles that eat away organelles in a specific sequence prior to the destruction of the nucleus.)Apoptosis

7. In practical terms, Acid is the stuff you want to keep off your hands, or any part of you, because it will eat away your skin.

8. Corrosion BASICS (from Swain (1996) and Schultz (1997)) What is Corrosion? • Webster’s Dictionary - corrode (v.) To eat away or be eaten away gradually, especially by chemical action

9. This page shows answers to the clue Corrode, followed by 5 definitions like “ To consume; to wear away ”, “ To eat away by degrees ” and “ To have corrosive action ”

10. When the air is moist, these convert into droplets of sulfuric acid, and corrode metal, eat away at stone and marble, increase acidity in lakes and rivers, and damage people’s lungs.

11. If you say something Acerbic, or harshly bitter, to someone, it can leave a bitter taste in your own mouth that lingers, and the Acerbic, or acidic, words can eat away at the person on the receiving end too.

12. For good reason, ocean Acidification is called “osteoporosis of the sea.” Ocean Acidification can create conditions that eat away at the minerals that oysters, clams, lobsters, shrimp, coral reefs, some seaweed plants and other marine life use to build their shells and skeletons

13. See: (one's) Conscience is clean (one's) Conscience is clear a clean Conscience makes a soft pillow a guilty Conscience needs no accuser be on (one's) Conscience clear Conscience, to have a Conscience does make cowards of us all Conscience money dictates of Conscience eat (away) at (someone's) Conscience have (something) on (one's) Conscience have a

14. Corrode (v.) late 14c., "to eat away, diminish or disintegrate (something) by gradually separating small bits of it," from Old French Corroder (14c.) and directly from Latin Corrodere "to gnaw to bits, wear away," from assimilated form of com-, here probably an intensive prefix (see com-), + rodere "to gnaw" (possibly from an extended form of PIE root *red-"to scrape, scratch, gnaw").