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Eat Away

Definitions: Eat Away

Eat Away

Verb

1. Remove soil or rock, as of wind or water; "Rain eroded the terraces".

2. Wear away or erode.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Eat Away

Synonyms: erode (v), fret (v). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Eat Away

English words defined with "eat away": BegnawCorrodiate. (references)
Specialty definitions using "eat away": LozengesPhineusReal Programmers Don't Use PascalWashingtonian. (references)
Etymologies containing "eat away": Obese. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Eat Away

DomainTitle

Books

  • Eat Away Diabetes: Beat Type 2 Diabetes by Winning the Blood-Sugar Battle (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Use in Literature: Eat Away

TitleAuthorQuote

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

Eat away now.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Modern Translations: Eat Away

Language Translations for "eat away"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

ha (chamfer, consume, demolish, despatch, dispatch, eat, elide, erode, feed, ingest, shark), brej (canker, corrode, crunch, eat up, fret, gnaw, nibble). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

ям непрекъснато, подривам (blast, blow up, disrupt, erode, gut, sap, shovel under, tear up, undermine, wash, wash out, wear away). (various references)

   

Czech

  

zpùsobovat korozi, vymílat, užírat, rozleptávat (corrode), rozežírat, podemílat, leptat (bite, etch). (various references)

   

German

  

zerfressen (consume, corrode, erode, erosion, gnaw, to erode), auswaschen (elution, erode, flush out, leaching, lessivage, lixiviation, rain-out, rinse out, scrubbing, sponge out, swill, wash out, washout, wash-out), ausfressen (do smth. wrong, eat up, erode, get up to, to erode), anfressen (eat into, erode, nibble, Peck). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kitartóan táplálkozik. (various references)

   

Manx

  

criaughey, craiu (corrode, corrosion; lever, crowbar). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eatay awayay.(various references)

   

Romanian

  

devora (consume, demolish, destroy, devour, engorge, engulf, wolf). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

проедать, подточить (sharpen up). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

izjesti (abrade). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

comer (comic, eat, feed, have dinner, lap up, live off, live on, lunch, luncheon, meal, partake of, take, take a meal, to eat, trifle, tuck, tuck away, tuck in). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

nöta bort (erode, fret, wear away), fräta bort (corrode, erode). (various references)

   

Thai

  

กั"กร่อน, กั"กิน (eat), กิน (chomp, eat, feed, grub, has). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

erozyona uğratmak (denude, eat at), yiyip durmak, sürüklemek (blow away, drag, drag along, drift, eat at, Hale, incline, lug, make leeway, pluck, schlep, schlepp, sweep, sweep before one, trail, train, tug, waft, wash away, wash off), aşındırmak (abrade, attack, bite, corrode, eat, eat at, erode, fray, fray out, fret, gnaw into, wash, wash away, wash off, wear, wear off). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

kertmek (cut slightly, make an incision). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

роз'їдати (canker, corrode, eat, erode, fret, gnaw), поглинати (absorb, canker, consume, devour, engulf, gulf, immerse, lap up, merge, mop up, occupy, overwhelm, suck in, swallow). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Eat Away

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-e-t-w-y"

-3 letters: away, twae, wyte.

-4 letters: ate, awa, awe, aye, eat, eta, tae, taw, tea, tew, twa, tye, wae, wat, way, wet, wye, yaw, yea, yet, yew.

-5 letters: aa, ae, at, aw, ay, et, ta, we, ya, ye.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-a-e-t-w-y"
 

+1 letter: takeaway, tearaway.

 

+2 letters: tearaways.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Eat Away


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 61 74      41 77 61 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01100001 01110100 00100000 01000001 01110111 01100001 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#97 &#116 &#32 &#65 &#119 &#97 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0061 0074      0041 0077 0061 0079

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

396786235896791

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Fiction
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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