Eat away

The river bank had been eaten away over the years by the flood water.

To eate avvay dead fleſh, take Stubbe-vvort, and folde it vp in a red Docke leafe, or red VVort leafe, and ſo roſte it in the hot embers and lay it hot to any ſore, and it vvill fret avvay all the dead fleſh; […]

The wearing away of rock is the work partly of the atmosphere and partly of water. The action of the atmosphere is chemical, and eats away the rock as rust eats away iron.

The zinc electrode has a positive charge because it has lost electrons to the carbon electrode. This positive charge attracts the negative ions (SO₄) from the sulfuric acid. The negative ions combine with the zinc to form zinc sulfate. This action causes the zinc electrode to be eaten away. […] The process of the zinc being eaten away and the sulfuric acid changing to hydrogen and zinc sulfate is the cause of the cell discharging.

At your Table I vvill proue / If I can eate avvay my loue.

[T]hus does politeneſs ſport vvith truth, and eating avvay the ſincerity and humanity natural to man, produce the fine gentleman.

The sun still eats away the shadow inch by inch, beating down with such intensity that finally everybody disappears except a few passers by.

During the second year, Magnus's extracurricular activities ate away at his finances. Drugs and women did not come cheap.

The guilt of having lied was eating away at him.

Not confessing that I had stolen the money ate away at me until I could no longer sleep.