Значения термина chiseled away на английском

He chiseled away at the mud with the shovel.

These can grow there like rock candy, eventually needing to be acid-washed or chiseled away.

Dust flew as workers chiseled away at the squat structure, remaking it in the new style.

What little confidence Turner had in the clandestine service was constantly chiseled away by acts of subversion.

Someone had chiseled away all her features.

But as she read Petey's strongly worded essay, every vestige of gratification inspired by the magazine editor's complimentary words was chiseled away from her heart.