eat away
Upper Intermediate (B2) neutral
To slowly destroy something bit by bit, like acid burning through metal.
"The sea has been eating away at the cliffs for centuries."
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Don Quixote - Orson Welles - Film (1957-1972) - English - Multiple Subtitles - Remastered 1992 - 4K
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You just eat away.
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and eat away the stress this family keeps dumping on me.
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it took years for that war to start to eat away
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And that uncertainty is what really starts to eat away at you.