| 单词 | to eat one's way |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto eat one's (its) way 11. To make (a hole, a passage) by fretting or corrosion. With cognate object to eat one's (its) way. literal and figurative. ΚΠ 1694 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in Ann. Misc. 57 The slow creeping Evil eats his way, Consumes the parching Limbs; and makes the Life his Prey. 1782 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting (ed. 3) V. 137 Something like a figure eaten into the barril. 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xxvi. 344 The long canal which the running waters have eaten into the otherwise unchanged ice. 1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 138 Little water-courses may be eaten out of solid rock by a running stream. < as lemmas |
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