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Definition of Chip away
1. Verb. Remove or withdraw gradually:. "These new customs are chipping away at the quality of life"
Definition of Chip away
1. Verb. (idiomatic intransitive) To reduce or weaken bit by bit. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chip Away
Literary usage of Chip away
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manual of Practical Anatomy by Daniel John Cunningham (1921)
"After the saw cuts are made take the bone forceps and chip away the frontal bone
between the saw cuts, to the level of the floor of the anterior fossa. ..."
2. The Silent Readers by William Dodge Lewis, Albert Lindsay Rowland (1920)
"Reaching down he grasped the nearest fragment of rock, and began to chip away a
comer of the boulder on which he sat. The first bit that was broken from it ..."
3. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1907)
"... necessary to chip away a large amount of metal so that there is not sufficient
metal to fill in, a small piece of copper or tough wrought iron can be ..."
4. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1874)
"Tom seized a log to make a thrust, To lay the Indian in the dust ; The Indian
ran away— So swift he cut his stick, he must Have been a Chip-away. ..."
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