"eat away" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: eats away [present, singular, third-person], eating away [participle, present], ate away [past], eaten away [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|eat<,,ate,eaten> away}} eat away (third-person singular simple present eats away, present participle eating away, simple past ate away, past participle eaten away)
  1. To erode or corrode gradually. Derived forms: eat away at Translations (to erode or corrode gradually): أَكَلَ (ʔakala) (Arabic), قَرَضَ (qaraḍa) (Arabic), نَخْرَبَ (naḵraba) (Arabic), أَبْلَى (ʔablā) (Arabic), أَهْلَكَ (ʔahlaka) (Arabic), تَآكَلَ (taʔākala) (Arabic), jan (Basque), rosegar (Catalan), desgastar (Catalan), rozežrat [perfective] (Czech), rozežírat [imperfective] (Czech), kuluttaa [general] (Finnish), syövyttää (Finnish), nakertaa (Finnish), rapauttaa (Finnish), lahottaa (english: depending on the actual mechanism) (Finnish), zerfressen (German), nagen (German), manjar (Ido), creim (Irish), cnaígh (Irish), выеда́ть (vyjedátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), вы́есть (výjestʹ) [perfective] (Russian), пожира́ть (požirátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), пожра́ть (požrátʹ) [perfective] (Russian), подмыва́ть (podmyvátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), подмы́ть (podmýtʹ) (note: of the sea) [perfective] (Russian), carcomer (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-eat_away-en-verb-Td-074UK Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (away)

Inflected forms

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          "sense": "to erode or corrode gradually",
          "word": "أَكَلَ"
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          "lang": "Basque",
          "sense": "to erode or corrode gradually",
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          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "to erode or corrode gradually",
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          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "to erode or corrode gradually",
          "word": "desgastar"
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          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "to erode or corrode gradually",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
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          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "to erode or corrode gradually",
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to erode or corrode gradually",
          "tags": [
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          ],
          "word": "kuluttaa"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to erode or corrode gradually",
          "word": "syövyttää"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to erode or corrode gradually",
          "word": "nakertaa"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to erode or corrode gradually",
          "word": "rapauttaa"
        },
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          "english": "depending on the actual mechanism",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to erode or corrode gradually",
          "word": "lahottaa"
        },
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to erode or corrode gradually",
          "word": "zerfressen"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to erode or corrode gradually",
          "word": "nagen"
        },
        {
          "code": "io",
          "lang": "Ido",
          "sense": "to erode or corrode gradually",
          "word": "manjar"
        },
        {
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "to erode or corrode gradually",
          "word": "creim"
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          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "to erode or corrode gradually",
          "word": "cnaígh"
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          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "vyjedátʹ",
          "sense": "to erode or corrode gradually",
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          ],
          "word": "выеда́ть"
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          "sense": "to erode or corrode gradually",
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          "sense": "to erode or corrode gradually",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "пожира́ть"
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          "sense": "to erode or corrode gradually",
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          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to erode or corrode gradually",
          "word": "carcomer"
        }
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      "roman": "ʔakala",
      "sense": "to erode or corrode gradually",
      "word": "أَكَلَ"
    },
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      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "qaraḍa",
      "sense": "to erode or corrode gradually",
      "word": "قَرَضَ"
    },
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      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "naḵraba",
      "sense": "to erode or corrode gradually",
      "word": "نَخْرَبَ"
    },
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      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "ʔablā",
      "sense": "to erode or corrode gradually",
      "word": "أَبْلَى"
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      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "ʔahlaka",
      "sense": "to erode or corrode gradually",
      "word": "أَهْلَكَ"
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      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "taʔākala",
      "sense": "to erode or corrode gradually",
      "word": "تَآكَلَ"
    },
    {
      "code": "eu",
      "lang": "Basque",
      "sense": "to erode or corrode gradually",
      "word": "jan"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "to erode or corrode gradually",
      "word": "rosegar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "to erode or corrode gradually",
      "word": "desgastar"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to erode or corrode gradually",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "rozežrat"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to erode or corrode gradually",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "rozežírat"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to erode or corrode gradually",
      "tags": [
        "general"
      ],
      "word": "kuluttaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to erode or corrode gradually",
      "word": "syövyttää"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to erode or corrode gradually",
      "word": "nakertaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to erode or corrode gradually",
      "word": "rapauttaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "english": "depending on the actual mechanism",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to erode or corrode gradually",
      "word": "lahottaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to erode or corrode gradually",
      "word": "zerfressen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to erode or corrode gradually",
      "word": "nagen"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "to erode or corrode gradually",
      "word": "manjar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "to erode or corrode gradually",
      "word": "creim"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "to erode or corrode gradually",
      "word": "cnaígh"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "vyjedátʹ",
      "sense": "to erode or corrode gradually",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "выеда́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "výjestʹ",
      "sense": "to erode or corrode gradually",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "вы́есть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "požirátʹ",
      "sense": "to erode or corrode gradually",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "пожира́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "požrátʹ",
      "sense": "to erode or corrode gradually",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "пожра́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "podmyvátʹ",
      "sense": "to erode or corrode gradually",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "подмыва́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "note": "of the sea",
      "roman": "podmýtʹ",
      "sense": "to erode or corrode gradually",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "подмы́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to erode or corrode gradually",
      "word": "carcomer"
    }
  ],
  "word": "eat away"
}

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