eat
吃,食,吃了,吃东西
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Definitions
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ate [eyt; especially British et] /eɪt; especially British ɛt/ or eat [et, eet]; /ɛt, it/; eat·en or eat [et, eet]; /ɛt, it/; eat·ing.
- : to take into the mouth and swallow for nourishment; chew and swallow.
- : to consume by or as if by devouring gradually; wear away; corrode: The patient was eaten by disease and pain.
- : to make, as by gnawing or corrosion.
- : to ravage or devastate: a forest eaten by fire.
- : to use up, especially wastefully; consume: Unexpected expenses have been eating up their savings.
- : to absorb or pay for: The builder had to eat the cost of the repairs.
- : Slang: Vulgar. to perform cunnilingus or fellatio on.
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ate [eyt; especially British et] /eɪt; especially British ɛt/ or eat [et, eet]; /ɛt, it/; eat·en or eat [et, eet]; /ɛt, it/; eat·ing.
- : to consume food; take a meal: We'll eat at six o'clock.
- : to make a way, as by gnawing or corrosion: Acid ate through the linoleum.
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- : eats, Informal. food.
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- : eat away / into to destroy gradually, as by erosion: For eons, the pounding waves ate away at the shoreline.
- : eat out, to have a meal at a restaurant rather than at home.
- : eat up, to consume wholly.to show enthusiasm for; take pleasure in: The audience ate up everything he said.to believe without question.
Phrases
- eat and run
- eat away at
- eat crow
- eat high off the hog
- eat in
- eat like a bird
- eat one's cake and have it, too
- eat one's hat
- eat one's heart out
- eat one's words
- eat out
- eat out of someone's hand
- eat shit
- eat someone alive
- eat someone out
- eat someone out of house and home
- eat someone's ass out
- eat someone's lunch
- eat someone up
- eat up
- dog eat dog
- proof of the pudding is in the eating
- what's eating you
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
It’s nestled between a handful of other quick eats, bars and restaurants.
On longer trips, trying out regional snacks and unexpected roadside eats are an essential part of the experience.
Two Indonesian airlines, Garuda and Lion Air, have seen Fernandes eat their lunch and are only now responding.
Still, I wish that DuVernay had given us more about those who are less famous besides a scene where they all eat dinner together.
Tribole tells her patients not to change what they eat but how.
Now, his new book “The Bulletproof Diet,” claims to offer a weight loss solution that lets you have your butter, and eat it too.
I try to eat less processed food, like whole grains, fruits and vegetables, nothing over-processed.
You see Squinty, like most little pigs, thought more of something to eat than of anything else.
Jean clung to his English nurse, who played the fascinating game of pretending to eat his hand.
I mean it is well my mother is ill, and doesn't wish to eat, for there would be nothing for her, if she did.
Many of his bird neighbors,p. 31 for instance, liked the same things to eat that he did.
That was because he was hungry, you see, but pigs nearly always eat fast, as though they were continually in a hurry.