eat+away
81eat — iËt v. consume food; destroy; wear away, corrode; consume …
82eat up — Consume, devour, make away with, destroy, use up, exhaust …
83eat — I. v. a. 1. Chew and swallow, ingest. 2. Corrode, erode, consume, wear away, gnaw into. II. v. n. 1. Feed, take food. 2. Act corrosively. 3. (Colloq.) Taste, relish …
84eat — verb 1) we ate a hearty breakfast Syn: consume, devour, swallow, partake of, munch, chomp; informal tuck into, put away 2) we ate at a local restaurant Syn: have a meal, feed, snack …
85eat — to corrode and remove the metal from the front fender has been eaten away by rust …
86eat someone’s lunch — tv. to best someone; to defeat, outwit, or win against someone. (In the way that a school bully takes away children’s lunches and eats them at recess.) □ The upstart ABC Computer Company is eating IBM’s lunch …
87wear away — Synonyms and related words: abate, ablate, abrade, abrase, absorb, abstract, assimilate, atomize, bark, bate, be all over, be consumed, be eaten away, be gone, be no more, become extinct, become void, bite, bleed white, blow over, break, break up …
88file away — Synonyms and related words: abate, abrade, abstract, bank, bate, bundle away, cache, coffer, curtail, decrease, deduct, deposit, depreciate, derogate, detract, diminish, disparage, drain, eat away, erode, extract, file, hutch, impair, lay away,… …
89take away — Synonyms and related words: abate, abrade, abridge, abstract, bate, belittle, bereave, bleed, carry away, carry off, cart away, curtail, cut off, decrease, deduct, delocalize, depreciate, deprive, deprive of, derogate, detract, diminish, discount …
90wash something away — ERODE, abrade, wear away, eat away, undermine. → wash * * * ˌwash sb/sthaˈway derived (of water) to remove or carry sb/sth away to another place • Part of the path had been washed away by the sea. • The rain had washed away the footprints …
