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eat |
eat |
Verb | 1. | eat - take in solid food; "She was eating a banana"; "What did you eat for dinner last night?" ingest, consume, have, take in, take - serve oneself to, or consume regularly; "Have another bowl of chicken soup!"; "I don't take sugar in my coffee" eat - eat a meal; take a meal; "We did not eat until 10 P.M. because there were so many phone calls"; "I didn't eat yet, so I gladly accept your invitation" wash down - eat food accompanied by lots of liquid; also use metaphorically; "She washed down her dinner with a bottle of red wine"; "He washes down his worries with a nightly glass of whisky" slurp - eat noisily; "He slurped his soup" fare - eat well garbage down, gobble up, shovel in, bolt down - eat a large amount of food quickly; "The children gobbled down most of the birthday cake" nibble, piece, pick - eat intermittently; take small bites of; "He pieced at the sandwich all morning"; "She never eats a full meal--she just nibbles" ruminate - chew the cuds; "cows ruminate" eat, feed - take in food; used of animals only; "This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat"; "What do whales eat?" eat up, polish off, finish - finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table; "She polished off the remaining potatoes" consume, down, devour, go through - eat immoderately; "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal" |
2. | eat - eat a meal; take a meal; "We did not eat until 10 P.M. because there were so many phone calls"; "I didn't eat yet, so I gladly accept your invitation" ingest, consume, have, take in, take - serve oneself to, or consume regularly; "Have another bowl of chicken soup!"; "I don't take sugar in my coffee" take away, take out - buy and consume food from a restaurant or establishment that sells prepared food; "We'll take out pizza, since I am too tired to cook" victual - take in nourishment dine - have supper; eat dinner; "We often dine with friends in this restaurant" picnic - eat alfresco, in the open air; "We picnicked near the lake on this gorgeous Sunday" eat - take in solid food; "She was eating a banana"; "What did you eat for dinner last night?" break bread - have a meal, usually with company; "The early Christian disciples broke bread together" mess - eat in a mess hall lunch - take the midday meal; "At what time are you lunching?" brunch - eat a meal in the late morning; "We brunch in Sundays" breakfast - eat an early morning meal; "We breakfast at seven" binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, scarf out, satiate, stuff - overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself; "She stuffed herself at the dinner"; "The kids binged on ice cream" eat up, polish off, finish - finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table; "She polished off the remaining potatoes" | |
3. | eat - take in food; used of animals only; "This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat"; "What do whales eat?" ingest, consume, have, take in, take - serve oneself to, or consume regularly; "Have another bowl of chicken soup!"; "I don't take sugar in my coffee" eat - take in solid food; "She was eating a banana"; "What did you eat for dinner last night?" forage - wander and feed; "The animals forage in the woods" raven - feed greedily; "The lions ravened the bodies" suckle - suck milk from the mother's breasts; "the infant was suckling happily" | |
4. | eat - worry or cause anxiety in a persistent way; "What's eating you?" | |
5. | eat - use up (resources or materials); "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week" run out - exhaust the supply of; "We ran out of time just as the discussion was getting interesting" drain - deplete of resources; "The exercise class drains me of energy" spend - spend completely; "I spend my pocket money in two days" | |
6. | eat - cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid; "The acid corroded the metal"; "The steady dripping of water rusted the metal stopper in the sink" damage - inflict damage upon; "The snow damaged the roof"; "She damaged the car when she hit the tree" |
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anthropophagic or anthropophagous | fellow humans |
apivorous | bees |
cannibalistic | other members of the same species |
carnivorous | meat |
carpophagous, frugivorous, or fruitarian | fruit |
carrion | dead and rotting flesh |
coprophagous | dung |
geophagous | earth |
herbivorous | plants |
hylophagous | wood |
insectivorous | insects |
limivorous | mud |
macrophagous | relatively large pieces of food |
monophagous | only one food |
mycetophagous | fungi |
myrmecophagous | ants |
nectarivorous | nectar |
nucivorous | nuts |
omnivorous | meat and plants |
omophagic or omophagous | raw food |
piscivorous | fish |
theophagous | gods |
vegan | no animal products |
vegetarian | no flesh |
zoophagous | animals |