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chips away

chips away is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 chips away

What is chips away the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Chips away is the third-person singular simple present indicative of chip away.

Words near chips away in the dictionary

  1. chipres
  2. chips
  3. chips and charges
  4. chips and cheese
  5. chips at
  6. chips away
  7. chips in
  8. chips into
  9. chips mayai
  10. chips of old blocks
  11. chips of the old block

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