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eat away

VERB
  1. wear away or erode
  2. remove soil or rock
    Rain eroded the terraces

How To Use eat away In A Sentence

  • With 400 acres to explore, it is the perfect retreat away from hectic city life. The Sun
  • There is something about western modernity which really does eat away at the soul. Times, Sunday Times
  • Light-colored surfaces reflect most of the heat away from your home.
  • The heat of the igneous body initiates convection of the water, which is heated as it is drawn into the body and carries heat away after it becomes warm and buoyant, only to be replaced by cooler water drawn in from the sides.
  • Hung - chien pulled out his handkerchief to wipe the sweat away and heaved a sigh.
  • By drawing sweat away from your skin as soon as it rises to the surface, he says, your body won't cool properly.
  • Over geological time these small streams will inevitably eat away the whole mountain side and the gorges will probably collapse in on themselves, but don't hold your breath waiting for it.
  • It is to allow inflation to eat away at the real value of borrowings. Times, Sunday Times
  • Second behind Portugal, who they beat away. Times, Sunday Times
  • A small grille just above the keyboard serves as an exit for the heat-pipe used to convect heat away from the processor.
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