wearing away

The current had been wearing away the bottom of the slope, making a slide inevitable, said authors Daniel and Lynn Rodgers Miller.

This line is not in the F. text; it seems to mean—'a wave, harmful in wearing away the shore.'

Even if my body had not been wearing away as formerly, my mind had become excessively wearied.

Yet by the wearing away of the ice it is evident that a length of time has been spent thus for ever wheeling round.

But I judged that generally it was not wearing away here at the rate of more than six feet annually.

They appear to have been exposed to view, in modern times, by the wearing away of the bank.