/t??p/-pp-tograduallybreakoffsmallpiecesorpartsof something:He used achiseltochipaway therock.Wefoundamassofconcreteandslowlychippedit away touncoverapipe.SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesRemoving and getting rid of things
abandonment
banish
be scattered to the four windsidiom
bin
castsomeone/somethingaside/away/off
dumping
erase
erasure
evacuate
evacuation
exorcism
expunge
fling
scrape
shoo
shrug
shrugsomethingoff
shuck
shucksomethingoff
sling
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