eat into sth
— phrasal verb with eat uk/iːt/us/iːt/verb [ I or T ] ate, eaten
to use or take away a large part of something valuable, such as money or time:
The high cost of living in London is eating into my savings.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Using and misusing
- adopt
- adoption
- advantage
- avail
- avail yourself of sth
- be/go heavy on sth idiom
- go through sth
- gobble sth up
- heavy
- make capital out of sth idiom
- max
- max sth out
- mine
- upcycle
- upcycling
- usable
- usage
- use
- use sth up
- wear
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