eating away

“The war of attrition is eating away at the human, security, economic, spiritual, moral and psychological levels,” he said in a recent speech.

“Fear, confusion, oppression, anxiety is eating away at people.”

I need to fight the chronic deadly resistant bacteria eating away at my fragile, scarred lungs.

Over the last two decades, the conservancy that owns nine-tenths of this island has shot, trapped and shipped out thousands of goats, pigs and bison that were literally eating away the island.

The dots are scattered all over the map, eating away at land where Palestinians hope - or hoped - to build their state.