- Company rep first travelled in car with rust - Eat away - Gradually eat away - Rust - Very gradually eat away - Wear away - To eat away by degrees; to wear away or diminish by
gradually separating or destroying small particles of, as by action of
a strong acid or a caustic alkali.
- Make thinner - Thin down - To lose flesh gradually and become very lean; to waste
away in flesh. - To cause to waste away in flesh and become very lean;
as, his sickness emaciated him. - Emaciated.