1. to eat up and spoil (e.g. crops), to eat away, to devour, to wolf down
2. to eat a bit of everything
3. to encroach upon, to take over, to steal (e.g. support)
1. at (place, time), in, on, during
2. to (direction, state), toward, into
3. for (purpose)
4. because of (reason), for, with
5. by, from
6. as (i.e. in the role of)
7. per, in, for, a (e.g. "once a month")
8. and, in addition to
9. if, although
