wear+away
71take away — verb 1. remove from a certain place, environment, or mental or emotional state; transport into a new location or state (Freq. 5) Their dreams carried the Romantics away into distant lands The car carried us off to the meeting I ll take you away… …
72dribble away — Synonyms and related words: ablate, atrophy, blow, blunder away, consume, consume away, dally away, decrease, deplete, depreciate, diddle away, dissipate, drain, drivel, drivel away, emaciate, erode, fool away, fritter, fritter away, idle away,… …
73waste away — Synonyms and related words: Sanforize, abate, ablate, absorb, age, assimilate, atomize, atrophy, attenuate, bate, be consumed, be eaten away, be gone, bleed white, break up, burn up, cease, cease to be, cease to exist, cheat the undertaker, come… …
74melt away — Synonyms and related words: abate, ablate, bate, be annihilated, be consumed, be destroyed, be eaten away, be gone, be no more, be wiped out, cease, cease to be, cease to exist, consume, consume away, corrode, crumble, decline, decrease,… …
75fall away — Synonyms and related words: abate, ablate, apostacize, apostatize, ascend, bank, bate, be eaten away, be found wanting, bolt, break away, cant, careen, change sides, climb, collapse, come short, consume, consume away, corrode, crumble, decline,… …
76pass away — Synonyms and related words: be all over, be annihilated, be consumed, be destroyed, be done for, be gone, be lost, be no more, be superseded, be wiped out, become extinct, become void, blow over, cash in, cease, cease to be, cease to exist, cease …
77chip away at — chipping away at their defenses Syn: erode, wear down, wear away, whittle down, corrode, gnaw away at …
78whittle away — verb cut away in small pieces • Syn: ↑whittle down, ↑wear away • Hypernyms: ↑damage • Verb Frames: Somebody s something Something s something * * * ˌ …
79go away — Synonyms and related words: aberrate, be consumed, be getting along, be gone, buzz off, cease, cease to be, cease to exist, come away, decline, dematerialize, depart, deploy, die, die away, die out, diminish, disappear, dispel, disperse,… …
80eat away — verb 1. remove soil or rock Rain eroded the terraces • Syn: ↑erode, ↑fret • Derivationally related forms: ↑erosive (for: ↑erode), ↑erosion ( …
