eat into

Questions about eat into

What is another word for eat into?

It depends which eat into you mean. In the sense “gnaw into; make resentful or angry”, the synonyms are fret, rankle, grate. Across all 1 sense there are 3 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of eat into?

WordNet records no antonym for eat into. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for eat into come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of eat into

• Full entry for eat intoAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for eat intoWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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