eat ( t)v. ate (  t), eat·en (t n), 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. Phrasal Verb: 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). eat up Slang Idioms: 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. 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. [Middle English eten, from Old English etan; see ed- in Indo-European roots.] eat er 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. |
eat [iːt]
vb eats, eating, ate, eaten
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Physiology) to take into the mouth and swallow (food, etc.), esp after biting and chewing
2. (tr; often foll by away or up) to destroy as if by eating the damp had eaten away the woodwork
3. (often foll by into) to use up or waste taxes ate into his inheritance
4. (often foll by into or through) to make (a hole, passage, etc.) by eating or gnawing rats ate through the floor
5. to take or have (a meal or meals) we always eat at six
6. (tr) to include as part of one's diet he doesn't eat fish
7. (tr) Informal to cause to worry; make anxious what's eating you?
8. (tr) Slang to perform cunnilingus or fellatio upon
I'll eat my hat if Informal to be greatly surprised if (something happens that proves one wrong)
eat one's heart out to brood or pine with grief or longing
eat one's words to take back something said; recant; retract
eat out of (someone's) hand to be entirely obedient to (someone)
EAT, EAZ
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ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
| 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" |
eat
verb
1. consume, swallow, chew, hoover (informal), scoff (slang), devour, munch, tuck into (informal), put away, gobble, polish off (informal), wolf down She was eating a sandwich.
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 Let's go out to eat.
Related words
like phagomania
like phagomania
Quotations
"One should eat to live, and not live to eat" [Molière L'Avare]
"One should eat to live, and not live to eat" [Molière L'Avare]
Specific eating habits
Habit
| Food | |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Translations
eat [iːt] (ate (pt) (eaten (pp)))
A. VT → comer
there's nothing to eat → no hay nada de or que comer
would you like something to eat? → ¿quieres comer algo?
he won't eat you → no te va a morder
what's eating you? → ¿qué mosca te ha picado?
to eat one's fill → hartarse
to eat one's lunch → comer, almorzar
to eat one's way through the menu → pedir todos los platos de la carta
he's eating us out of house and home → come por ocho
to eat one's words → tragarse las palabras
there's nothing to eat → no hay nada de or que comer
would you like something to eat? → ¿quieres comer algo?
he won't eat you → no te va a morder
what's eating you? → ¿qué mosca te ha picado?
to eat one's fill → hartarse
to eat one's lunch → comer, almorzar
to eat one's way through the menu → pedir todos los platos de la carta
he's eating us out of house and home → come por ocho
to eat one's words → tragarse las palabras
B. VI → comer
he eats like a horse → come más que una lima nueva
he always eats well → siempre tiene buen apetito
I've got him eating out of my hand → lo tengo dominado
he eats like a horse → come más que una lima nueva
he always eats well → siempre tiene buen apetito
I've got him eating out of my hand → lo tengo dominado
eat away at VI + PREP
1. [waves, sea] → desgastar; [acid, rust] → corroer; [rot, damp] → comerse; [mice etc] → roer; [insect pest] → comerse, devorar
2. (fig) → devorar
eat into VI + PREP (= wear away) → desgastar; [+ metal] [acid] → corroer; [+ savings] → mermar; [+ leisure time] → reducir
eat out
A. VI + ADV → comer fuera
B. VT + ADV to eat one's heart out → consumirse
I've written a novel: Marcel Proust, eat your heart out! → he escrito una novela: ¡chúpate esa, Marcel Proust!
I've written a novel: Marcel Proust, eat your heart out! → he escrito una novela: ¡chúpate esa, Marcel Proust!
eat up
A. VT + ADV [+ food] → comerse
it eats up electricity → consume mucha electricidad
to eat up the miles → tragar los kilómetros
to be eaten up with envy → consumirse de envidia
it eats up electricity → consume mucha electricidad
to eat up the miles → tragar los kilómetros
to be eaten up with envy → consumirse de envidia
B. VI + ADV eat up! → ¡venga, come!, ¡apúrate!(LAm)
eat [ˈiːt] [ate] (pt) [eaten] (pp)
vt
[+ food] → manger
Would you like something to eat? → Est-ce que tu veux manger quelque chose?
to eat lunch (US) → déjeuner
to have sb eating out of one's hand (under one's control) → faire manger qn dans sa main
Would you like something to eat? → Est-ce que tu veux manger quelque chose?
to eat lunch (US) → déjeuner
to have sb eating out of one's hand (under one's control) → faire manger qn dans sa main
vi → manger
eat away
vt sep vi → manger au restaurant
vt sep
vi
come along, eat up! → allons, mangez !
come along, eat up! → allons, mangez !
eat vb: pret <ate>, ptp <eaten>
vt (person) → essen, fressen (pej inf); (animal) → fressen; to eat one’s breakfast → frühstücken; to eat one’s lunch/dinner → zu Mittag/Abend essen; he ate his way through … → er aß sich durch …; he’s eating us out of house and home (inf) → der isst or frisst uns noch arm or die Haare vom Kopf (inf); to eat one’s words → (alles,) was man gesagt hat, zurücknehmen; he was forced to eat his words → er musste alles zurücknehmen; he won’t eat you (inf) → er wird dich schon nicht fressen (inf); what’s eating you? (inf) → was hast du denn? ? alive a
eat [iːt] (ate (vb: pt) (eaten (pp)))
eat [iːt] (ate (vb: pt) (eaten (pp)))
1. vt (food) → mangiare
to eat one's fill → mangiare a sazietà
he's eating us out of house and home (fam) → è un mangiapane a tradimento
he won't eat you (fam) → non ti mangia mica
what's eating you? (fam) → che cosa ti rode?
to eat one's words (fig) → rimangiarsi quello che si è detto
to eat one's fill → mangiare a sazietà
he's eating us out of house and home (fam) → è un mangiapane a tradimento
he won't eat you (fam) → non ti mangia mica
what's eating you? (fam) → che cosa ti rode?
to eat one's words (fig) → rimangiarsi quello che si è detto
2. vi → mangiare
he eats like a horse → mangia come un lupo
I've got him eating out of my hand → pende dalle mie labbra, fa tutto quello che voglio io
he eats like a horse → mangia come un lupo
I've got him eating out of my hand → pende dalle mie labbra, fa tutto quello che voglio io
eat away at vi + prep → rodere
eat in vi + adv → mangiare a casa
eat out
1. vi + adv → mangiare fuori
2. vt + adv to eat one's heart out → mangiarsi or rodersi il fegato
eat up
1. vt + adv (meal) → finire di mangiare
it eats up electricity → consuma un sacco di corrente
this car eats up the miles → questa macchina macina i chilometri
it eats up electricity → consuma un sacco di corrente
this car eats up the miles → questa macchina macina i chilometri
eat [iːt] (ate (vb: pt) (eaten (pp)))
1. vt (food) → mangiare
to eat one's fill → mangiare a sazietà
he's eating us out of house and home (fam) → è un mangiapane a tradimento
he won't eat you (fam) → non ti mangia mica
what's eating you? (fam) → che cosa ti rode?
to eat one's words (fig) → rimangiarsi quello che si è detto
to eat one's fill → mangiare a sazietà
he's eating us out of house and home (fam) → è un mangiapane a tradimento
he won't eat you (fam) → non ti mangia mica
what's eating you? (fam) → che cosa ti rode?
to eat one's words (fig) → rimangiarsi quello che si è detto
2. vi → mangiare
he eats like a horse → mangia come un lupo
I've got him eating out of my hand → pende dalle mie labbra, fa tutto quello che voglio io
he eats like a horse → mangia come un lupo
I've got him eating out of my hand → pende dalle mie labbra, fa tutto quello che voglio io
eat away at vi + prep → rodere
eat in vi + adv → mangiare a casa
eat out
1. vi + adv → mangiare fuori
2. vt + adv to eat one's heart out → mangiarsi or rodersi il fegato
eat up
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 (음식을) 먹다, 씹어 삼키다 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 syömäkelpoinen 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 ruoka 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 kuluttaa attaquer, ronger לְכָלוֹת बरबाद करना progristi, nagrizanjem se uvući beleeszi magát menghancurkan tæra; minnka, ganga á corrodere ～に食い込む 조금씩 소비하다 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 syödä sanansa (se) rétracter לְהוֹדוֹת בְּטָעוּת povući riječ visszaszívja amit mondott mengaku salah éta ofan í sig, taka orð sín aftur ritrattare, rimangiarsi ciò che si è detto 前言を取消す 자신의 잘못을 인정하다 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
eat → يأكل sníst spise essen τρώω comer syödä manger jesti mangiare 食べる (...을) 먹다 eten spise zjeść comer есть äta รับประทาน yemek ăn 吃
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