Usually means: Reduce or consume gradually, steadily.
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  1. eat into: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
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  3. eat into: Mnemonic Dictionary
  4. eat into: TheFreeDictionary.com
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  6. eat into: Dictionary.com
  7. eat into: Rhymezone
  8. eat into: FreeDictionary.org
  9. eat into: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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Definitions from Wiktionary (eat into)

▸ verb:  To consume gradually, especially by erosion.

Similar:
rankle, fret, grate, eat out, eat away at, eat away, wear, absume, eat up, wear away, more...

Opposite:
spare, save, preserve, conserve

Adjectives:
evaginate, all-consuming, eaten, absorbed, resorbent, mainline, sucking, gutted, wallow, rubbled, splay

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Similar:
rankle, fret, grate, eat out, eat away at, eat away, wear, absume, eat up, wear away, more...

Opposite:
spare, save, preserve, conserve

Adjectives:
evaginate, all-consuming, eaten, absorbed, resorbent, mainline, sucking, gutted, wallow, rubbled, splay



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