- Chafe
- Graze
- Graze harshly
- Grind down a bread roll
- Make rough
- Rub
- Rub abrasively
- Putrefy
- Rot
- Wear away
- To pass gradually from a sound, prosperous, or perfect
state, to one of imperfection, adversity, or dissolution; to waste
away; to decline; to fail; to become weak, corrupt, or disintegrated;
to rot; to perish; as, a tree decays; fortunes decay; hopes decay.
- To cause to decay; to impair.
- To destroy.
- Gradual failure of health, strength, soundness, prosperity,
or of any species of excellence or perfection; tendency toward
dissolution or extinction; corruption; rottenness; decline;
deterioration; as, the decay of the body; the decay of virtue; the
decay of the Roman empire; a castle in decay.
- Bar on a guitar neck
- Become anxious over part of guitar
- Corrode
- Guitar neck bar
- Lose sleep over
- Pine ridge on guitar neck
- Ridge on a guitar neck
- 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.
- Clean by washing and rubbing
- Cleanse thoroughly
- Lose ground?
- Polish hard
- Rub hard
- Scrub
- Scrub chorus disrupted by departure of high leader
- ... drink & be merry
- ..., drink and be merry
- A cereal
- Be humiliated, ... humble pie
- Bother swallow
- Chew
- Chew and swallow