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Lost ship found in Antarctica after 100 years | Learn the phrasal verb ‘eat away at’
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To Day's English Expression Is to Eat Away at Something
In many parts of the ocean, there are wood eating worms that eat away at wooden shipwrecks. To eat away at is to gradually consume or destroy something. And in this case, the shipworms do it by literally eating it's not just in the water. It might take them a couple of years, but they will eventually destroy any wooden structure that you drop down in the ocean.
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