eat 
eat (ēt)
transitive verb ateāt; Brit usually et, eat′enēt′'n, eat′·ing
- to put (food) in the mouth, chew if necessary, and swallow
- to use up, devour, destroy, or waste as by eating; consume or ravage: usually with away or up
- to penetrate and destroy, as acid does; corrode
- to make by or as by eating the acid ate holes in the cloth
- to bring into a specified condition by eating to eat oneself sick
- Informal to absorb (a financial loss); accept responsibility for losses resulting from (unsold goods, bad debts, etc.)
- ☆ Slang to worry or bother what's eating him?
- Vulgar, Slang to perform fellatio or cunnilingus on
Etymology: ME eten < OE etan, akin to Ger essen < IE base *ed-, to eat > L edere, Gr edmenai
intransitive verb
- to eat food; have a meal or meals
- to destroy or use up something gradually: often with into
eat one's words
to retract something said earlier
eat out
☆- to have a meal in a restaurant
- Slang to reprimand
eat up
- to consume all of
- Informal to respond to with avid, uncritical interest or delight
eat
v.
To take as food
consume, devour, bite, chew, swallow, dine, feed, feed on, have a meal, enjoy a meal, lunch, breakfast, sup, snack, munch, nibble, gobble, gorge, stuff oneself, eat out, dine out, have a bite, feast on, fatten on, do justice to, do oneself proud, dispose of, peck at, pick, eat up, digest, masticate, ruminate, graze, browse, dispatch, feast, banquet, batten, discuss, partake of, fare, bolt, wolf down, gulp, fall to, tuck into, tuck away, break bread, live on, take in, have, ingest, taste, try, savor, gormandize, glut, overeat, cram, pack away*, put away*, polish off*, make short work of*, attack*, dig in*, make a pig of oneself*, eat out of house and home*, entertain the inner man*, feed the inner man*, ply a good knife and fork*, eat like a bird*, nosh*, put on the feed bag*, pig out*, stuff one's face*, feed one's face*, chow down*, scarf down*, inhale*, lick the plate*. Antonyms
fast*, starve, vomit. To reduce gradually
eat away, corrode, consume, devour, wear away, erode, gnaw, rust away, destroy, ravage, dissolve, melt, eat up, use up, waste, dissipate, squander, drain, putter away, fool away, run through. Antonyms
increase*, swell, build. *To bother
worry, vex, disturb; see bother 2, 3.
Object
- disorder: Looking for ways to support people with eating disorders in East Suffolk.
- meat: We wear leather shoes, eat meat, drink milk, why not make use of the skins, too?
- diet: Most people in native cultures eating diets dictated by availability experienced vibrant health.
- food: Table knife: a knife used for eating food.
- habit: Tips on healthy eating Change your eating habits gradually, you are more likely to continue to eat healthily this way.
- fruit: So if you want to eat citrus fruits, do so quickly.
Noun phrase with adjective complement
- rich: Women who regularly eat foods rich in carotenes cut their risk of stroke by 40 percent.
Adjective complement
- alive: I rarely get many mosquito bites, even when people are getting eaten alive.
- fat: Even tho detox diets arn't really intended as weight-loss diets, you do tend to loose weight because you're eating less fat.
- less: Top 10 easy ways to cut calories There are two ways to lose weight burn more calories or eat less of them.
Followed by an intransitive particle
- out: My hobbies are golf, Opera & eating out.
Used with why or when
- whatever: There are so many places to go and eat whatever type of ethnic food that you have a taste for.
- when: There's no point going anywhere if you can't afford to eat when you get there!
- What: Eat What Your Child Eats This requires commitment and discipline!
Present participle complement
- nourish: For a healthy immune system, eat nourishing food and forgo the pills.
Preposition: in
- moderation: Eat in moderation unless you are trying to increase your energy intake.
- restaurant: Unfortunatley the meal was the worst I have ever eaten in a restaurant.
Preposition: of
- bread: A man ought to examine himself before he eats of the bread and drinks of the cup.
Preposition: with
- cutlery: Would you want to eat with dirty cutlery, even if the deposits were shown to be sterile?
Preposition: for
- breakfast: The Cabin g What does cabin eat for breakfast?
I opened a tin of Bologna sausage and broke a cake of chocolate, and that was all I had to eat. It may sound offensive, but I ate them together, bite by bite, by way of bread and meat. All I had to wash down this revolting mixture was neat brandy; a revolting beverage in itself. But I was rare and hungry; ate well, and smoked one of thebestcigarettesinmyexperience.Then Iput a stonein my straw hat, pulled the flap of my fur cap over my neck and eyes, put my revolver ready to hand, and snuggled well down among the sheepskins.
If I could live my life over again there is one thing I would change. I would want to be able to eat less.
Seg u¤ n un yanqui que debe ser todo un derrochador, es Cuba donde mejor se come siempre y se bebe. According to a gringo who must be a true spendthrift, Cuba is always the best place to eat and to drink.
If I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back as a buzzard.Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything.
I couldn't eat, just went on drinking coffee, and sweating it out again. Liquid had no time to be digested; it came through the pores long before it reached the stomach. I lay wet through with sweat for four hoursöit was very nearly like happiness.
Let the Stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savoryand the appetite is keen.
I'm going to visit every country in the world, eat all the food of the world, drink all the drink of the worldöand, I hope, make love to every woman in the world. Then I might get a good night's sleep.
How right it seemed that he should reach the span Of comfortable years allowed to man! Splendid to eat and sleep and choose a wife, Safe with his wound, a citizen of life. He hobbled blithely through the garden gate, And thought: 'Thank God they had to amputate!'
Look at me! Look at myarm! I have plowed, and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head meöand ar'n't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man (when I could get it), and bear de lash as wellöand ar'n't I a woman? I have borne thirteenchilernandseen'emmos'allsoldoff intoslavery, and when I cried out with a mother's grief, none but Jesus heardöand ar'n't I a woman?
Eat, drink, and love; the rest's not worth a fillip.
Then I commended mirth, because a manhath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with himof hislabour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.
I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.
I saw in my own education some of the things which eat the power out of women. Wharton
Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
Il faut manger pour vivre, et non pas vivre pour manger. One should eat to live, not live to eat.
In Americawe eat, collectively, withaglumurgefor food to fill us.We are ignorant of flavor. We are as a nation taste-blind.
The Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread: And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said,Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying,This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.
To sit back hoping that some day, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping that he will eat you lastöbut eat you he will.
And the man said,The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. And the L God said unto the woman,What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said,The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
'Then you should say what you mean,'the March Hare went on. 'Ido,'Alicehastily replied; 'at leastöat least Imeanwhat I sayöthat's the same thing, you know.' 'Not the same thing a bit! 'said the Hatter.'Why, you might just as well say that ''I see what I eat'' is the same thing as ''I eat what I see!'''
And saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth: Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air. And there came a voice to him, Rise,Peter; kill, and eat.
What advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die. See Parker 638:61.
And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.
If any would not work, neither should he eat.
Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. And never, ever, nomatter whatelse you do in your whole life, never sleep with anyone whose troubles are worse than your own.
'You must sit down,'says Love,'and taste my meat,' So I did sit and eat.
Some hae meat and canna eat And some wad eat that want it; But we hae meat and we can eat, And sae the Lord be thankit.
Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es. Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are.
It is better to sniff France's dung for a while than eat China's all our lives. 405
To eat, to survive and to have a good coat.
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