eat away

Questions about eat away

What does eat away mean?

eat away means "remove soil or rock". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for eat away?

Close synonyms include erode, fret, fret. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is eat away a common word?

eat away is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.