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Eat

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Verb

1. eat

take in solid food

Example Sentences:
'She was eating a banana'
'What did you eat for dinner last night?'

2. eat

eat a meal; take a meal

Example Sentences:
'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'

3. eat, feed

take in food; used of animals only

Example Sentences:
'This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat'
'What do whales eat?'

4. eat, eat on

worry or cause anxiety in a persistent way

Example Sentences:
'What's eating you?'

5. consume, deplete, eat, eat up, exhaust, run through, use up, wipe out

use up (resources or materials)

Example Sentences:
'this car consumes a lot of gas'
'We exhausted our savings'
'They run through 20 bottles of wine a week'

6. corrode, eat, rust

cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid

Example Sentences:
'The acid corroded the metal'
'The steady dripping of water rusted the metal stopper in the sink'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Eat

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verbWord forms: eats, eating, ate or eaten
1. 
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. (transitive)
to include as part of one's diet
he doesn't eat fish
7. (transitive) informal
to cause to worry; make anxious
what's eating you?
8. (transitive) vulgar, slang
to perform cunnilingus or fellatio upon
9.  I'll eat my hat if
10.  eat one's heart out
11.  eat one's words
12.  eat out of someone's hand
13.  eat someone out of house and home
abbreviation for
Tanzania (international car registration)

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Eat

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verb transitiveWord forms: ate (eɪt ; āt; British; usually ɛt ; et), ˈeaten (ˈitən ; ētˈ'n), ˈeating
1. 
to put (food) in the mouth, chew if necessary, and swallow
2. 
to use up, devour, destroy, or waste as by eating; consume or ravage
usually with away or up
3. 
to penetrate and destroy, as acid does; corrode
4. 
to make by or as by eating
the acid ate holes in the cloth
5. 
to bring into a specified condition by eating
to eat oneself sick
6.  Informal
to absorb (a financial loss); accept responsibility for losses resulting from (unsold goods, bad debts, etc.)
7.  US, Slang
to worry or bother
what's eating him?
8.  Vulgar, Slang
to perform fellatio or cunnilingus on
verb intransitive
9. 
to eat food; have a meal or meals
10. 
to destroy or use up something gradually
often with into

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Eat

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v. ate (āt), eat·en (ētn), 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 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 or anilingus 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).

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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