Eats away at
The crossword clue "Eats away at" is answered by ERODES, a 6-letter entry. Used 12 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
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ERODES
6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ERODES answer page.
Used 12 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for ERODES
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- Wears away - used 114 times, most recently in 2026
- Undermines - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
- Wears down - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
- Eats away - used 20 times, most recently in 2025
- Chips away at - used 18 times, most recently in 2023
- Deteriorates - used 11 times, most recently in 2021
- Eats into - used 10 times, most recently in 2021
- Washes away - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Loses ground? - used 7 times, most recently in 2010
- Destroys gradually - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
- Destroys slowly - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
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