eat away

Synonyms for eat away

verb weaken

"food," in use mid-19c. in U.S., considered colloquial, but the same construction with the same meaning was present in Old English.

Then thou art all safe; so eat away, and leave the rest to me.

At the present rate of erosion it takes 2,640 years to eat away a mile.

If you keep on gaping at her she will eat away all your insides.

Do they eat holes through the leaf, or do they eat away the entire leaf?

Let it eat away the dead oak, but let it not be compared with the living one.

He could but eat away his own heart in despair, a ruined man.

And here, too, they eat away the floes and hollow out their edges.

At the present rate of erosion, it takes 2,640 years to eat away a mile.

The men, considering that they had done quite enough in killing it, returned to smoke and eat away the fatigues of the chase.

The feeding tips of roots secrete acids that eat away lime and other substances that occur in rocks.