Bite at and Fret

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Bite at verb - To consume or wear away gradually.

Usage example: the waves were biting at the sand castle I had worked so hard on

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Fret and bite at are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Fret" instead a verb "Bite at".

Fret verb - To consume or wear away gradually.

Usage example: over the span of thousands of years, the annual spring runoff fretted the rock, forming a deep channel

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Bite at and fret are semantically related. You can use "Bite at" instead a verb "Fret".

Nearby Words: fretful, fretted, fretting, fretwork

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