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eat  (t)

v. ate (t), eat·en (tn), eat·ing, eats

v.tr.

1.

a. To take into the body by the mouth for digestion or absorption.

b. To take in and absorb as food: a plant that eats insects; a cell that eats bacteria.

c. To include habitually or by preference in one's diet: a bird that eats insects, fruit, and seeds; stopped eating red meat on advice from her doctor.

2. To destroy, ravage, or use up by or as if by ingesting: "Covering news in the field eats money" (George F. Will).

3. To erode or corrode: waves that ate away the beach; an acid that eats the surface of a machine part.

4. To produce by or as if by eating: Moths ate holes in our sweaters.

5. Slang To absorb the cost or expense of: "You can eat your loss and switch the remaining money to other investment portfolios" (Marlys Harris).

6. Informal To bother or annoy: What's eating him?

7. Vulgar Slang To perform cunnilingus on. Often used with out.

v.intr.

1.

a. To consume food.

b. To have or take a meal.

2. To exercise a consuming or eroding effect: a drill that ate away at the rock; exorbitant expenses that were eating into profits.

3. To cause persistent annoyance or distress: "How long will it be before the frustration eats at you?" (Howard Kaplan).

Phrasal Verb:

eat up Slang

1. To receive or enjoy enthusiastically or avidly: She really eats up the publicity.

2. To believe without question: He'll eat up whatever the broker tells him.

Idioms:

eat crow

To be forced to accept a humiliating defeat.

eat (one's) heart out

1. To feel bitter anguish or grief.

2. To be consumed by jealousy.

eat (one's) words

To retract something that one has said.

eat out of (someone's) hand

To be manipulated or dominated by another.

eat (someone) alive Slang

To overwhelm or defeat thoroughly: an inexperienced manager who was eaten alive in a competitive corporate environment.

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[Middle English eten, from Old English etan; see ed- in Indo-European roots.]

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eater n.

Synonyms: eat, consume, devour, ingest
These verbs mean to take food into the body by the mouth: ate a hearty dinner; greedily consumed the sandwich; hyenas devouring their prey; whales ingesting krill.

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eat

Verb

[eating, ate, eaten]

1. to take (food) into the mouth and swallow it

2. to have a meal: sometimes we eat out of doors

3. Informal to make anxious or worried: what's eating you?

4. eat away or into or up to destroy or use up partly or wholly: inflation ate into the firm's profits

See also eat out, eat up [Old English etan]

eater n

Thesaurus

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" 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" fress, gluttonise, gluttonize - eat a lot and without restraint wolf, wolf down - eat hastily; "The teenager wolfed down the pizza" slurp - eat noisily; "He slurped his soup" fare - eat well pitch in, dig in - eat heartily; "The food was placed on the table and the children pitched in" peck at, pick at, peck - eat like a bird; "The anorexic girl just picks at her food" peck, pick up - eat by pecking at, like a bird gobble, bolt - eat hastily without proper chewing; "Don't bolt your food!" 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?" dip, dunk - dip into a liquid while eating; "She dunked the piece of bread in the sauce" guttle, pig, raven, devour - eat greedily; "he devoured three sandwiches" 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" fill up, fill - eat until one is sated; "He filled up on turkey"
	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 in, eat in - eat at home dine out, eat out - eat at a restaurant or at somebody else's home 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?" 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" nosh, snack - eat a snack; eat lightly; "She never loses weight because she snacks between meals" 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" feast, banquet, junket - partake in a feast or banquet 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" dine in, eat in - eat at home dine out, eat out - eat at a restaurant or at somebody else's home 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?" feed 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" graze, pasture, browse, crop, range - feed as in a meadow or pasture; "the herd was grazing"
	4.	eat - worry or cause anxiety in a persistent way; "What's eating you?" eat on vex, worry - disturb the peace of mind of; afflict with mental agitation or distress; "I cannot sleep--my daughter's health is worrying me"
	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" deplete, use up, wipe out, eat up, exhaust, run through, consume 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" luxuriate, indulge - enjoy to excess; "She indulges in ice cream" burn off, burn up, burn - use up (energy); "burn off calories through vigorous exercise" expend, spend, drop - pay out; "spend money" spend - spend completely; "I spend my pocket money in two days" take, use up, occupy - require (time or space); "It took three hours to get to work this morning"; "This event occupied a very short time" play out, sap, tire, exhaust, run down - deplete; "exhaust one's savings"; "We quickly played out our strength"
	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" corrode, rust damage - inflict damage upon; "The snow damaged the roof"; "She damaged the car when she hit the tree" rust, corrode - become destroyed by water, air, or a corrosive such as an acid; "The metal corroded"; "The pipes rusted"

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eat

verb 1. consume, swallow, chew, scoff (slang) devour, munch, tuck into (informal) put away, gobble, polish off (informal) wolf down

verb 2. have a meal, lunch, breakfast, dine, snack, feed, graze (informal) have lunch, have dinner, have breakfast, nosh (slang) take food, have supper, break bread, chow down (slang) take nourishment

Translations

eat [pt ate, pp eaten] [iːt, eɪt, ˈiːtn] vt → comer

eat away vt [sea] → desgastar; [acid] → corroer

eat into, eat away at vt fus → corroer

eat out vi → comer fuera

eat up vt [+ meal etc] → comerse;

it eats up electricity → devora la electricidad

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eat [ate , pt , eaten , pp ] [iːt, eɪt, ˈiːtn] vt, vi → manger;

can we have something to eat? → est-ce qu'on peut manger quelque chose?

eat away vt [sea] → saper, éroder; [acid] → ronger, corroder

eat away at, eat into vt fus → ronger, attaquer

eat out vi → manger au restaurant

eat up vt [+ food] → finir (de manger);

it eats up electricity → ça bouffe du courant, ça consomme beaucoup d'électricité

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eat [iːt] [ate , pt , eaten , pp ] vt, vi → essen;

(animal) → fressen

eat away eat vt (subj) (sea) → auswaschen: (acid) → zerfressen

eat away at eat vt fus (metal) → anfressen;

(savings) → angreifen

eat into eat vt fus = eat away at

eat out eat vi → essen gehen

eat up eat vt → aufessen;

it eats up electricity eat → es verbraucht viel Strom

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eat [pt ate, pp eaten] [iːt, eɪt, ˈiːtn] vt → mangiare

eat away vt [sea] → erodere; [acid] → corrodere

eat away at, eat into vt fus → rodere

eat out vi → mangiare fuori

eat up vt [+ meal etc] → finire di mangiare;

it eats up electricity → consuma un sacco di corrente

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eat

v eat [iːt]

to (chew and) swallow; to take food They are forbidden to eat meat; They ate up all the cakes; We must eat to live. eet, geëet, moet eet يَأْكُل ям jíst, sníst spise essen τρώω comer sööma خوردن syödä manger לֶאֱכוֹל खाना jesti eszik makan borða mangiare 食べる 먹다 valgyti ēst makan eten spise, fortære, ete jeść comer a mânca есть jesť jesti jesti äta กิน; ทาน yemek 喫，吃 їсти منہ میں ڈالنے ، چبانے اور کھانے کا عمل ăn 吃

adj eatable

fit to be eaten The meal was scarcely eatable. eetbaar صالِح لِلأْكل годен за ядене k jídlu; jedlý spiselig eßbar εδώδιμος comestible söödav قابل خوردن؛ خوراکی syötävä mangeable אָכִיל खाद्य jestiv ehető layak dimakan ætur mangiabile, commestibile 食べられる 먹을 수 있는 valgomas ēdams boleh dimakan eetbaar spiselig jadalny comestível bun de mâncat съедобный jedlý užiten jestiv ätlig สามารถทานได้ yenebilir 可食用的 їстівний کھانے کے لائق ăn được 可食用的

n

(in plural) food Cover all eatables to keep mice away. eetbare أطْعِمَه، مأْكولات храни potraviny madvarer Eßwaren (pl.) φαγώσιμα (πληθ.) comestibles, víveres toit مواد غذایی ruokatavarat victuailles אוֹכֵל भोजन jestvine ennivaló makanan matvæli vivande, viveri 食料品 식료품 maistas pārtika; ēdamais makanan eetwaren matvarer żywność víveres mâncăruri съестное potraviny jestvine hrana matvaror อาหาร yiyecek 食物 їжа, харчі کھانا thức ăn 食物

eat into

to destroy or waste gradually Acid eats into metal; The school fees have eaten into our savings. opeet, invreet يَأْكُل، يُذيب، يُحَطِّمُ разяждам zažrat se; sáhnout hluboko gøre indhug i; æde op zerfressen, zehren κατατρώγω, καταστρέφω σταδιακά corroer, comer sööbima, ära sööma از بین بردن؛ خوردن syövyttää, nakertaa attaquer, ronger לְכָלוֹת बरबाद करना progristi, nagrizanjem se uvući beleeszi magát menghancurkan tæra; minnka, ganga á corrodere ～に食い込む 좀먹다, 부식하다 įsiėsti (par skābi) ieēsties; notērēt (līdzekļus) musnah wegvreten ete seg inni, etse, tære på wżerać się, nadwyrężać gastar a ataca; a înghiţi разъедать; растрачивать zažrať sa; siahnuť hlboko zajedati se (v kaj) nagrizati tära (nöta, fräta) på, förstöra ค่อย ๆ ทำลายหรือกำจัด aşındırmak 腐蝕，耗掉 роз'їдати ضائع کرنا ăn mòn; tiêu phí 腐（侵）蚀，耗掉

eat one's words

to admit humbly that one was mistaken in saying something I'll make him eat his words! jou woorde insluk يَرْجِعُ في كَلامِهِ принуден съм да си взема думите назад odvolat tage ordene i sig igen seinen Fehler eingestehen παίρνω πίσω τα λόγια μου tragarse lo dicho oma sõnu sööma حرف خود را پس گرفتن pyörtää puheensa (se) rétracter לְהוֹדוֹת בְּטָעוּת povući riječ visszaszívja amit mondott mengaku salah éta ofan í sig, taka orð sín aftur ritrattare, ciò che rimangiarsi si è detto 前言を取消す 일구 이언하다 atsiimti savo žodžius ņemt atpakaļ savus vārdus makan kata-kata zijn woorden inslikken ta ordene i seg igjen odszczekać coś engolir as (suas) palavras a-şi retrage cuvintele взять свои слова назад odvolať preklicati poreći få äta upp ngt man har sagt ยอมรับว่าพูดผิด tükürdüğünü yalamak 認錯道歉 брати свої слова назад جھک مار کر غلطی کا اعتراف کرنا thừa nhận sai lầm 认错道歉，食言