NOUN
- (geology) the mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles washing over it)
How To Use eating away In A Sentence
- We carefully watched the flame of the hour candle eating away the wax from ring to ring.
- The girl squeaked, dropped the phone, and I heard her footsteps retreating away from the phone.
- The ocean waves are slowly eating away the coastal rocks.
- The thought of mother alone like that was eating away at her.
- The air inside the pub was dense and suffocating, thick with sweat and laughter, jolliness engulfing and eating away at everything in the room.
- The sea has been eating away at this cliff for centuries.
- The acid has been eating away the sides of the container.
- Man-made chemicals called chlorofluorocarbons - used in air-conditioning units and aerosol spray propellants - were eating away at the ozone layer. The Shad Plank
- More profoundly, this insistence on the importance of distrust is eating away at our society. Times, Sunday Times
- The sea is eating away the coastline.
