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chipped away

chipped away is the simple past and past participle of chip away.

Meaning of chip away

Verb

chip away (third-person singular simple present chips away, present participle chipping away, simple past and past participle chipped away)

  1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To reduce or weaken bit by bit; often used with at.
    • Iraneus contrasts the unity and integrity of these writings with the distorted, contextless citations of the Gnostics. He describes the code of textual harassment that allows these heretics to chip away at the Scriptures, […]1991, Jan Gorak, The Making of the Modern Canon: Genesis and Crisis of a Literary Idea, page 24

Questions about chipped away

What is chipped away the simple past and past participle of?
Chipped away is the simple past and past participle of chip away.

Words near chipped away in the dictionary

  1. chippage
  2. chippages
  3. chipped
  4. chipped and charged
  5. chipped at
  6. chipped away
  7. chipped beef
  8. chipped chopped ham
  9. chipped ham
  10. chipped in
  11. chipped into

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