- Chafe
- Erode
- Graze
- Graze harshly
- Grind down a bread roll
- Make rough
- Rub
- Delay making love caused first break up
- Deterioration
- 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.
- Bar on a guitar neck
- Become anxious over part of guitar
- Corrode
- Fuss
- Guitar neck bar
- Guitar part to wear away
- Lose sleep over
- 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
- Clean vigorously
- Cleanse thoroughly
- Lose ground?
- Polish
- Polish hard
- Rub hard
- ... drink & be merry
- ..., drink and be merry
- A cereal
- Be humiliated, ... humble pie
- Bother swallow
- Chew
- Chew and swallow