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Eat Away Without Starting To Bring Back

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verb

• make an etching of

• cause to stand out or be clearly defined or visible

• carve or cut into a block used for printing or print from such a block

• carve or cut a design or letters into

• selectively dissolve the surface of (a semiconductor or printed circuit) with a solvent, laser, or stream of electrons

31%6Eat, eat, eat
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31%3Eat, eat, eat, with "out"
noun

• domestic swine

• a coarse obnoxious person

• a person regarded as greedy and pig-like

• uncomplimentary terms for a policeman

• mold consisting of a bed of sand in which pig iron is cast

• a crude block of metal (lead or iron) poured from a smelting furnace

verb

• live like a pig, in squalor

• eat greedily

• give birth to (piglets)

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