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单词 to eat out
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to eat out
to eat out
1. = to bite out.
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1858 A. Trollope Dr. Thorne I. 267 I suppose I ought to eat my tongue out, before I should say such a thing.
2. To exhaust eatables or pasture in (a place).
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1864 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia IV. xv. xi. 156 But, in the mean while, he is eating out these Bohemian vicinages.
1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 30 Mar. 6/1 Wyoming is a natural grazing country..and to suppose that it can be ‘eaten out’ in ten years or a generation is to suppose an impossibility.
3. To destroy as a parasite or a corrosive. Also figurative, esp. in phrases with heart.
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the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > cause bad condition in [verb (transitive)] > corrode or erode
forfret?c1225
fret?c1225
gnaw1530
to eat awaya1538
eat1555
arrode1575
corrode1594
out-eatc1595
eat1609
erode1612
to eat out1616
bite1623
etch1664
exede1669
cancer1824
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1616 S. Hieron Dignitie of Preaching (new ed.) in Wks. (1620) I. 589 Goe not from the church, to eate out & to eate vp one another in the market, by fraud & cruelty.
1648 Bp. J. Hall Breathings Devout Soul xi. 15 Yet when we have all done, time eates us out at the last.
1656 tr. J. A. Comenius Latinæ Linguæ Janua Reserata: Gate Lat. Tongue Unlocked xiii. §103 Yvie clambering over trees, eateth them out.
1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 74 A little of the said oyl..presently eats out the Colour.
1677 A. Yarranton England's Improvem. 146 The cheapness of these Threds will eat out the very Spinning in most parts of England.
1886 G. T. Stokes Ireland & Celtic Church xi. 212 Image worship..which had largely eaten out the heart of religion among them.
1890 Rev. of Reviews 2 323/1 General Boulanger is not eating out his heart in vain regrets.
1890 ‘W. A. Wallace’ Only a Sister xviii. 155 Why, there's poor Aikone..eating his heart out and getting no further.
1919 M. K. Bradby Psycho-anal. 70 Commonsense says that it is better..‘to let off steam’ than to ‘eat your heart out’.
4. To encroach upon (space, formerly also time) belonging to something else.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement over, across, through, or past > [verb (transitive)] > move beyond > encroach physically
winc1440
encroach1578
usurp1635
to usurp on or upona1658
to eat outa1716
infringe1769
a1716 R. South 12 Serm. (1717) V. 67 No..Business of State ate out his times of Attendance in the Church.
1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. ii. iv. 197 A certain handsome room..on the ground floor, eating out a backyard.
5. Mining. (See quot. 1849.)
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1849 G. C. Greenwell Gloss. Terms Coal Trade Northumberland & Durham 25 Eat out, this expression is applied when a level coal drift is turned to the dip, in order to take advantage of (or ‘eat out’) a rise hitch.
6. intransitive. To take a meal elsewhere than at one's residence.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating in specific conditions > eat in specific conditions [verb (intransitive)] > dine out
to dine fortha1616
to dine out1741
to eat out1933
1933 Maclean's Aug. 35/1 They had planned to ‘eat out’, but presently Norma's chances of being ‘discovered’ in some smart café became completely nil.
1945 ‘L. Lewis’ Birthday Murder (1951) iv. 47 Why don't we eat out tonight?.
1954 R. Macaulay Let. 8 July (1962) 159 Women..stay at home while the men eat out in cafés and restaurants.
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