Antonyms for eat away


Grammar : Verb
Spell : eet
Phonetic Transcription : it


Definition of eat away

Origin :
  • "food," in use mid-19c. in U.S., considered colloquial, but the same construction with the same meaning was present in Old English.
  • As in undermine : verb weaken
  • As in waste : verb spend or use without thought; dwindle
  • As in whittle : verb cut away at; reduce
  • As in gnaw : verb bite, chew
Example sentences :
  • Then thou art all safe; so eat away, and leave the rest to me.
  • Extract from : « Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II (of II) » by Charles James Lever
  • At the present rate of erosion it takes 2,640 years to eat away a mile.
  • Extract from : « Evening Round Up » by William Crosbie Hunter
  • If you keep on gaping at her she will eat away all your insides.
  • Extract from : « Foma Gordyeff » by Maxim Gorky
  • Do they eat holes through the leaf, or do they eat away the entire leaf?
  • Extract from : « An Elementary Study of Insects » by Leonard Haseman
  • Let it eat away the dead oak, but let it not be compared with the living one.
  • Extract from : « Imaginary Conversations and Poems » by Walter Savage Landor
  • He could but eat away his own heart in despair, a ruined man.
  • Extract from : « The Expositor's Bible » by F. W. Farrar
  • And here, too, they eat away the floes and hollow out their edges.
  • Extract from : « Farthest North » by Fridtjof Nansen
  • At the present rate of erosion, it takes 2,640 years to eat away a mile.
  • Extract from : « Think » by Col. Wm. C. Hunter
  • The men, considering that they had done quite enough in killing it, returned to smoke and eat away the fatigues of the chase.
  • Extract from : « The Dog Crusoe and his Master » by R.M. Ballantyne
  • The feeding tips of roots secrete acids that eat away lime and other substances that occur in rocks.
  • Extract from : « Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know » by Julia Ellen Rogers

Synonyms for eat away

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