eat away at something/somebody

phrasal verbphr v

a) REMOVEto gradually remove or reduce the amount of something 侵蝕；消耗

His gambling was eating away at their income.

他的賭博在逐漸敗光他們的收入。

b) WORRIEDto make someone feel very worried over a long period of time 〔長期地〕困擾，煩擾

The thought of mother alone like that was eating away at her.

一想起母親孤身一人的情景，她心裏就不好受。

Examples from the Corpus

eat away at • The irony is that population growth itself eats away at development potential.• She has Alzheimers Disease, which is eating away at her mind.• It looked misshapen in this light, almost as if something was eating away at it.• Winning the gold is not eating away at me, but I would love to make the most of this.• It eats away at money for new schools and new hospitals.• The acid began to eat away at the edge of her tunic, the bottom strands of her curly hair.• This residue gradually eats away at the healthy beliefs at the core of organizational life.• In the intervening years, as property taxes ate away at their nest egg, their proposals for other developments fell flat.

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