wearing away

Questions about wearing away

What does wearing away mean?

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

What is another word for wearing away?

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

wearing 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.