eat away

Language: en

Meaning: Tophysicallycorrodeorerode(something)gradually.Synonym:(archaic)begnawThe battery acidate awayat the metal until a large hole appeared.The river bank had beeneaten awayover the years by the flood water.1615,G[ervase] M[arkham], “[The English Hus-wife.] Of the Inward Vertues of the Minde which Ought to Bee in Euery Hous-wife.”, inCountrey Contentments, in Two Bookes: The First, Containing the Whole Art of Riding Great Horses in Very Short Time,[…]The Second Intituled, The English Huswife:[…], London:[…]I[ohn]B[eale]for R[oger]Iackson,[…],→OCLC,page33:Toeate avvaydead 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;[…]1878, “Soil and Manure”, inThe Royal Readers: Sequel to No. V(The Royal School Series; 2), London; Edinburgh:T[homas]Nelson and Sons,[…],→OCLC, part II, paragraph 1,page143:The wearing away of rock is the work partly of the atmosphere and partly of water. The action of the atmosphere is chemical, andeats awaythe rock as rusteats awayiron.1992February, “Batteries”, inIntroduction to Matter, Energy, and Direct Current(Navy Electricity and Electronics Training Series, Nonresident Training Course;module 1; NAVEDTRA B72-01-00-92), Washington, D.C.:United States Government Printing Officefor theNaval Education and Training Program Management Support Activity,→OCLC,page2-5, column 2: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 beeaten away.[…]The process of the zinc beingeaten awayand the sulfuric acid changing to hydrogen and zinc sulfate is the cause of the cell discharging.; (figurative)Todestroy(something) gradually by anongoingprocess.Synonyms:corrode,erode1602,[John or Joshua Cooke],A Pleasant Conceited Comedie, wherein is Shewed How a Man may Chuse a Good Wife from a Bad.[…], London:[…]Mathew Lawe,[…],→OCLC; reprinted asHow a Man may Choose a Good Wife from a Bad(Old English Drama Students’ Facsimile Edition;[57]),[S.l.]:[s.n.],1912,→OCLC,folio F2, verso:At your TableIvvill proue / IfIcaneate avvaymy loue.1791(date written),Mary Wollstonecraft, “Morality Undermined by Sexual Notions of the Importance of a Good Reputation”, inA Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, London:[…]J[oseph]Johnson,[…], published1792,→OCLC,pages298–299:[T]hus does politeneſs ſport vvith truth, andeating avvaythe ſincerity and humanity natural to man, produce the fine gentleman.1858May 31 (date written),Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Incisa”, inPassages from the French and Italian Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne, volume I, London:Strahan & Co.,[…], published1871,→OCLC,page347:The sun stilleats awaythe shadow inch by inch, beating down with such intensity that finally everybody disappears except a few passers by.2011,Eric Wilson, chapter 20, in1 Step Away: A Modern Twist on One of the World’s Oldest Tales(By the Numbers Series; 1), Leesburg, Fla.: Bay Forest Books,→ISBN,page113:During the second year, Magnus's extracurricular activitiesate awayat his finances. Drugs and women did not come cheap.(specifically)Chiefly followed byat: of acircumstance,incident, etc.: tocause(someone) tofeelguilty,troubled, orworried; tobother.The guilt of having lied waseating awayat him.Not confessing that I had stolen the moneyate awayat me until I could no longer sleep.1992, Eric R. Marcus, “Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis of Psychosis”, inPsychosis and Near Psychosis: Ego Function, Symbol Structure, Treatment, New York, N.Y.:Springer-Verlag,→ISBN,page227:Although you didn't want him around at first, the thought of losing him now iseating awayat you.1999,Terry Pluto, “The Sad Saga of 1970”, inOur Tribe: A Baseball Memoir, New York, N.Y.:Simon & Schuster,→ISBN,page197:If[Tony]Hortonhad stuck it out for only two more days, his value would have increased. Instead, he buckled at absolutely the worst time. Thisate awayat him.

Examples:

EN: You see, sometimes a thought can be like a malignant disease.. That starts to eat away at the will power.
ES: A veces un pensamiento puede ser igual que una enfermedad maligna; empieza por corroer la voluntad.
EN: "Sometimes a thought can be like a malignant disease." "And start to eat away the willpower."
ES: A veces un pensamiento puede ser igual que una enfermedad maligna, empieza por corroer la voluntad.
EN: They eat away at your stomach, your intestines, everything.
ES: Se comen el estómago, las tripas, todo.
EN: I'm the one who taught him to stay away from the plots that eat away at the empire.
ES: Yo soy quien le enseñó a permanecer distante de las conspiraciones que devoran el Imperio.
EN: I guess the emotional things that were happening on the ground, the photographs that we saw, the news images, and the fact that there was no discernible progress, that really started to eat away at what we thought.
ES: (Jack Todd) Creo que las cosas impactantes que pasaban, las fotografías que veíamos, las imágenes en las noticias y el hecho de que no había un avance notorio, comenzaron a carcomer nuestro pensamiento.
EN: There are certain things the Krotons forbid us to study; fluids which eat away metal and flesh; in time I can develop some way of attacking them.
ES: Hay ciertas cosas que los Krotons nos prohíben estudiar: fluidos que corroen el metal y la carne. Con tiempo puedo desarrollar alguna forma de atacarlos.
EN: And I've watched it eat away at you for the last 10 months.
ES: Por 10 meses te ha consumido.
EN: That rot is going to eat away your hearts.
ES: Esa podredumbre corroerá sus corazones.
ES: Esa podredumbre corroerá sus corazones.
EN: I just know he's gonna linger on and eat away at our savings.
ES: Sé que tardará mucho y gastará nuestros ahorros.
EN: First, he has drawn a spot on Tyan-Yu's back. And this spot will eat away Tyan-Yu's flesh, just as it ate away our ancestor's face.
ES: Primero, una marca en la espalda de Tyan-Yu, que devorará su carne como devoró la cara de nuestro antepasado.
EN: That rust will cause corrosion, which will eat away at the car, which will, in turn, eat away at me, leaving me a sad, pathetic, worthless man who just sits around the house moaning, "My car is wearing makeup.
ES: Esa oxidación causará corrosión, que se comerá al auto, que, a su vez, me comerá a mí, dejándome como un hombre triste, patético y sin valor que solo se sienta en la casa gimiendo, "Mi auto está usando maquillaje.
ES: Esa oxidación causará corrosión, que se comerá al auto, que, a su vez, me comerá a mí, dejándome como un hombre triste, patético y sin valor que solo se sienta en la casa gimiendo, "Mi auto está usando maquillaje.
EN: I would have to live with my own conscience and that would eat away at my soul till I was no longer Jane Eyre, but some embittered mistress who you resented being with.
ES: Tendría que vivir con mi conciencia, Que se comería mi alma, hasta que ya no fuera más Jane Eyre, Sino una especie de amante con la que estaría resentido de estar.
EN: - You're never gonna see me again. - It's gonna eat away at you.
ES: Nunca me volverás a ver, eso te perseguirá,
EN: We found him dead with a bullet wound to the chest With the fungal infection already starting to eat away at him.
ES: Lo hallamos muerto con un balazo en el pecho y la infección del hongo comenzando a devorarlo.
EN: She'd just eat away at me.
ES: Me agobiaba mucho.

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