英语词汇“eat something away (or eat away at)”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

eat something away (or eat away at)

Erode or destroy something gradually: the acid began to eat away at the edge of her tunic figurative the knowledge of his affair still ate away at her...

The timbers have been eaten away by what Mr Fox calls ‘radioactive seepage’.
In that time literally millions of bombs have rained down on the soft Holderness earth - and now they are all being exposed as the cliffs are eaten away by the sea.
The stone blocks had been eaten away by time and now were only a shadow of their former glory.

Synonyms

erode, corrode, abrade, wear away (at), wear down, wear through, gnaw away (at), bite into, burn into, burn through, consume, dissolve, disintegrate, crumble, waste away, rot, decay;

damage, destroy, spoil

See parent entry: eat

单词	eat something away (or eat away at)
释义	eat something away (or eat away at) Erode or destroy something gradually: the acid began to eat away at the edge of her tunic figurative the knowledge of his affair still ate away at her... The timbers have been eaten away by what Mr Fox calls ‘radioactive seepage’. In that time literally millions of bombs have rained down on the soft Holderness earth - and now they are all being exposed as the cliffs are eaten away by the sea. The stone blocks had been eaten away by time and now were only a shadow of their former glory. Synonyms erode, corrode, abrade, wear away (at), wear down, wear through, gnaw away (at), bite into, burn into, burn through, consume, dissolve, disintegrate, crumble, waste away, rot, decay; damage, destroy, spoil See parent entry: eat
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