Eat

ahd-5
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To take into the body by the mouth for digestion or absorption.
  • intransitive verb. To take in and absorb as food.
  • intransitive verb. To include habitually or by preference in one's diet.
  • intransitive verb. To destroy, ravage, or use up by or as if by ingesting.
  • intransitive verb. To erode or corrode.
  • intransitive verb. To produce by eating.
  • intransitive verb. To absorb the cost or expense of.
  • intransitive verb. To bother or annoy.
  • intransitive verb. To perform cunnilingus or anilingus on. Often used with out.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To consume food.
  • intransitive verb. To have or take a meal.
  • intransitive verb. To exercise a consuming or eroding effect.
  • intransitive verb. To cause persistent annoyance or distress.
  • phrasal verb. To receive or enjoy enthusiastically or avidly.
  • phrasal verb. To believe without question.
  • idiom. (eat crow) To be forced to accept a humiliating defeat.
  • idiom. (eat (one's) heart out) To feel bitter anguish or grief.
  • idiom. (eat (one's) heart out) To be consumed by jealousy.
  • idiom. (eat (one's) words) To retract something that one has said.
  • idiom. (eat out of (someone's) hand) To be manipulated or dominated by another.
  • idiom. (eat (someone) alive) To overwhelm or defeat thoroughly.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To masticate and swallow as nourishment; partake of or devour as food: said especially of solids: as, to eat bread.
  • To corrode; wear away; gnaw into; consume; waste: generally with away, out, up, or into: as, rust has eaten away the surface; lines eaten out by aqua fortis; these cares eat up all my time.
  • To take food; feed.
  • To make way by corrosion; gnaw; penetrate or excavate by disorganization or destruction of substance: as, a cancer eats into the flesh.
  • To taste; relish: as, it eats like the finest peach.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To take food; to feed; especially, to take solid, in distinction from liquid, food; to board.
  • intransitive verb. To taste or relish.
  • intransitive verb. To make one's way slowly.
  • intransitive verb. to make way by corrosion; to gnaw; to consume.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. to keep the course when closehauled with but little steering; -- said of a vessel.
  • transitive verb. To chew and swallow as food; to devour; -- said especially of food not liquid.
  • transitive verb. To corrode, as metal, by rust; to consume the flesh, as a cancer; to waste or wear away; to destroy gradually; to cause to disappear.
  • transitive verb. See under Humble.
  • transitive verb. (partitive use).
  • transitive verb. to retract what one has said. (See the Citation under Blurt.)
  • transitive verb. to consume completely.
  • transitive verb. to gain slowly to windward of her.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To consume (something solid or semi-solid, usually food) by putting it into the mouth and swallowing it.
  • verb. To consume a meal.
  • verb. To be eaten.
  • verb. To destroy, consume, or use up.
  • verb. To cause (someone) to worry.
  • verb. To take the loss in a transaction.
  • verb. To corrode or erode.
  • verb. To damage, destroy, or fail to eject a removable part or an inserted object.
  • Word Usage
    "Of course, now my parents are freaking over the organic grassfed meat I eat and want me to ‘eat by my blood type', which being A+ is an opposite diet of high carb, low fat, veggie stuff…"
    cross-reference
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    damage  vex  worry  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Crete  Deet  Delete  Fleet  Grete  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    appetite  aroma  call  consumption  cook  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    ablate  absorb  also  assimilate  bite  
    variant
    ate  eaten  
    verb-form
    ate  eaten  eating  eats  eatting