The water came and went quickly, but the salt in the water stays in the 900 year old walls much longer eating away at the marble and brick near the floor and even on the mosaic ceiling.
Release does something that is critically important: it allows you to let go of the burden, the " silent tax" that is weighing you down and eating away at your chance for happiness.
It is more like an emotion that is embedded within the body, one that, when faced with an impossible moral dilemma, starts eating away at you as if you're trapped in some terrible nightmare.
When they turned on, fusing hydrogen into helium, they started blasting out a mind-numbing amount of ultraviolet light, which began eating away at the gas and dust.