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Eating away   /ˈitɪŋ əwˈeɪ/   Listen
Eating away

noun
1.
(geology) the mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles washing over it).  Synonyms: eroding, erosion, wearing, wearing away.






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"Eating away" Quotes from Famous Books



... single-minded; he never lost the voice of his call; he felt more and more keenly the contrast between the hard lot of his country and the freedom of these lands, and he bore it ill that no one of them even knew about her, and the cancer eating away her beauty and strength. At the end of this period of study he settled in Berlin, and began his active work for ...
— An Eagle Flight - A Filipino Novel Adapted from Noli Me Tangere • Jose Rizal



Words linked to "Eating away" :   abrasion, eroding, detrition, corrasion, soil erosion, geological process, ablation, beach erosion, planation, chatter mark, attrition, geologic process, deflation, geology



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