| 单词 | to eat away |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto eat away to eat away To remove, destroy by gradual erosion or corrosion. literal and figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > cause bad condition in [verb (transitive)] > corrode or erode forfret?c1225 fret?c1225 gnaw1530 to eat awaya1538 eat1555 arrode1575 corrode1594 out-eatc1595 eat1609 erode1612 to eat out1616 bite1623 etch1664 exede1669 cancer1824 to eat in- a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 31 They be as hyt were etyn away. 1815 M. Elphinstone Acct. Kingdom Caubul i. iii. 111 The river..frequently eats away its banks. 1853 J. Phillips Rivers, Mountains, & Sea-coast Yorks. i. 8 Carbonic acid eats away the limestone. 1858 N. Hawthorne Fr. & Ital. Jrnls. II. 286 The sun still eats away the shadow inch by inch. < as lemmas |
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