eating away

Questions about eating away

What does eating away mean?

eating away means "(geology) the mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles washing over it)".

What is another word for eating away?

Close synonyms include erosion, eroding, wearing, wearing away. 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 eating away a common word?

eating away is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.