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eat E0019000 (ēt)v. ate (āt), eat·en (ēt′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 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).Phrasal Verb: eat up Slang 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.Idioms: eat crow To be forced to accept a humiliating defeat. eat (one's) heart out1. 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 or eaten1. (Physiology) to take into the mouth and swallow (food, etc), esp after biting and chewing2. (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 upon9. I'll eat my hat if informal I will be greatly surprised if (something happens that proves me wrong)10. eat one's heart out to brood or pine with grief or longing11. eat one's words to take back something said; recant; retract12. eat out of someone's hand to be entirely obedient to someone13. eat someone out of house and home to ruin someone, esp one's parent or one's host, by consuming all his food[Old English etan; related to Gothic itan, Old High German ezzan, Latin edere, Greek edein, Sanskrit admi] ˈeater n
EAT or EAZabbreviation forTanzania (international car registration)[from E(ast) A(frica) T(anganyika) or E(ast) A(frica) Z(anzibar)]eat (it) v. ate (eɪt; esp. Brit. ɛt) eat•en (ˈit n) eat•ing, v.t. 1. to take into the mouth and swallow for nourishment; chew and swallow (food). 2. to consume gradually; wear away; corrode. 3. to use up, esp. wastefully (often fol. by away, into, or up): Unexpected expenses ate up their savings. 4. to make (a hole, passage, etc.), as by gnawing or corrosion. 5. to ravage or devastate. 6. to absorb or pay for: The builder had to eat the cost of the repairs. 7. to cause anxiety or irritation in; worry; bother: What's eating you now? v.i. 8. to consume food; have a meal. 9. to make a way, as by gnawing or corrosion: Acid ate through the linoleum. 10. eat in, to eat or dine at home. 11. eat out, to have a meal at a restaurant rather than at home. 12. eat up, a. to consume wholly. b. to show enthusiasm for; take pleasure in. c. to believe without question. n. 13. eats, Informal. food. [before 900; Middle English; Old English etan] eat′er, n. eat Past participle: eaten Gerund: eating
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I eat | you eat | he/she/it eats | we eat | you eat | they eat |
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I ate | you ate | he/she/it ate | we ate | you ate | they ate |
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I am eating | you are eating | he/she/it is eating | we are eating | you are eating | they are eating |
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I have eaten | you have eaten | he/she/it has eaten | we have eaten | you have eaten | they have eaten |
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I was eating | you were eating | he/she/it was eating | we were eating | you were eating | they were eating |
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I had eaten | you had eaten | he/she/it had eaten | we had eaten | you had eaten | they had eaten |
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I will eat | you will eat | he/she/it will eat | we will eat | you will eat | they will eat |
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I will have eaten | you will have eaten | he/she/it will have eaten | we will have eaten | you will have eaten | they will have eaten |
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I will be eating | you will be eating | he/she/it will be eating | we will be eating | you will be eating | they will be eating |
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I will have been eating | you will have been eating | he/she/it will have been eating | we will have been eating | you will have been eating | they will have been eating |
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I had been eating | you had been eating | he/she/it had been eating | we had been eating | you had been eating | they had been eating |
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I would eat | you would eat | he/she/it would eat | we would eat | you would eat | they would eat |
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I would have eaten | you would have eaten | he/she/it would have eaten | we would have eaten | you would have eaten | they would have eaten | ThesaurusVerb | 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"fress, gluttonise, gluttonize - eat a lot and without restraintwolf, wolf down - eat hastily; "The teenager wolfed down the pizza"slurp - eat noisily; "He slurped his soup"fare - eat wellpitch in, dig in - eat heartily; "The food was placed on the table and the children pitched in"peck at, pick at, peck - eat like a bird; "The anorexic girl just picks at her food"peck, pick up - eat by pecking at, like a birdgobble, bolt - eat hastily without proper chewing; "Don't bolt your food!"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?"dip, dunk - dip into a liquid while eating; "She dunked the piece of bread in the sauce"guttle, pig, raven, devour - eat greedily; "he devoured three sandwiches"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"fill up, fill - eat until one is sated; "He filled up on turkey" | | 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 nourishmentdine in, eat in - eat at homedine out, eat out - eat at a restaurant or at somebody else's homedine - 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"nosh, snack - eat a snack; eat lightly; "She never loses weight because she snacks between meals"mess - eat in a mess halllunch - 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"feast, banquet, junket - partake in a feast or banquetbinge, 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"dine in, eat in - eat at homedine out, eat out - eat at a restaurant or at somebody else's homeeat 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?"feedingest, 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"graze, pasture, browse, crop, range - feed as in a meadow or pasture; "the herd was grazing" | | 4. | eat - worry or cause anxiety in a persistent way; "What's eating you?"eat onvex, worry - disturb the peace of mind of; afflict with mental agitation or distress; "I cannot sleep--my daughter's health is worrying me" | | 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"deplete, use up, wipe out, eat up, exhaust, run through, consumerun 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"luxuriate, indulge - enjoy to excess; "She indulges in ice cream"burn off, burn up, burn - use up (energy); "burn off calories through vigorous exercise"expend, spend, drop - pay out; "spend money"spend - spend completely; "I spend my pocket money in two days"take, use up, occupy - require (time or space); "It took three hours to get to work this morning"; "This event occupied a very short time"play out, sap, tire, exhaust, run down - deplete; "exhaust one's savings"; "We quickly played out our strength" | | 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"corrode, rustdamage - inflict damage upon; "The snow damaged the roof"; "She damaged the car when she hit the tree"rust, corrode - become destroyed by water, air, or a corrosive such as an acid; "The metal corroded"; "The pipes rusted" |
eatverb1. 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.eat into something use up, drain, exhaust, consume, deplete, devour, swallow up His work responsibilities were eating into his free time.eat something away destroy, dissolve, crumble, rot, decay, erode, wear down, corrode, bite into, waste away, wear away The rot is eating away the interior of the house.Related words like phagomaniaQuotations "One should eat to live, and not live to eat" [Molière L'Avare]Specific eating habitsHabit Food |
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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 |
eatverb1. To take (food) into the body as nourishment:consume, devour, fare, ingest, partake.Slang: chow.Idioms: break bread, have a bite.2. To do away with completely and destructively.Also used with up:consume, devour, swallow (up), waste.3. To consume gradually, as by chemical reaction or friction:bite, corrode, erode, gnaw, wear, wear away.phrasal verb eat up1. To eat completely or entirely:consume, devour, dispatch.Informal: polish off, put away.2. To use all of:consume, drain, draw down, exhaust, expend, finish, play out, run through, spend, use up.Informal: polish off.3. To be avidly interested in:devour, feast on, relish.4. Slang. To like or enjoy enthusiastically, often excessively:adore, delight (in), dote on (or upon), love.Slang: groove on.Translationseat (iːt) – past tense ate (et eit; (American) eit) : past participle ˈeaten – verb to (chew and) swallow; to take food. They are forbidden to eat meat; They ate up all the cakes; We must eat to live. 喫,吃 吃ˈeatable (negative uneatable) adjective fit to be eaten. The meal was scarcely eatable. 可食用的 可食用的 noun (in plural) food. Cover all eatables to keep mice away. 食物 食物eat into to destroy or waste gradually. Acid eats into metal; The school fees have eaten into our savings. 腐蝕,逐漸耗盡 腐蚀,耗掉 eat one's words to admit humbly that one was mistaken in saying something. I'll make him eat his words! 承認失言 认错道歉,食言 - Is there somewhere to eat on the boat? → 船上有吃饭的地方吗?
- What would you like to eat? → 您想吃点什么?
- Do you eat meat? → 你吃肉吗?
- Would you like something to eat? → 想要吃点什么吗?
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eat (someone or something)1. To pay the cost of something. If we sent the wrong file to the printer, then we'll just have to eat the cost of the fliers and start over again.2. To cause one to worry. What's eating you? Did something bad happen?3. vulgar slang To perform cunnilingus.See also: eateat1. tv. [for something] to bother or worry someone. Nothing’s eating me. I’m just the nervous type. 2. tv. to absorb the cost or expense of something. We’ll eat the costs on this one. It’s the least we can do. 3. tv. to perform oral sex on someone. (Usually objectionable.) She said she wanted to eat me! See:- (do something) to excess
- (Do) you eat with that mouth?
- (I) hate to eat and run
- (one) is not going to eat (someone)
- (one) won't eat (someone)
- a bite to eat
- beat out
- chew out
- could eat a horse
- did everything he could 'cept eat us
- Do you eat with that mouth?
- Dog does not eat dog
- dog eat dog
- dog-eat-dog
- don't crap where you eat
- don't know whether to eat it or rub it on
- eat
- eat (away) at (someone or something)
- eat (away) at (someone's) conscience
- eat (one) alive
- eat (one) out of house and home
- eat (one's) fill
- eat (one's) gun
- eat (one's) hat
- eat (one's) heart out
- eat (one's) lunch
- eat (one's) own dog food
- eat (one's) salt
- eat (one's) shirt
- eat (one's) Wheaties
- eat (one's) words
- eat (one's) young
- eat (someone or something)
- eat (someone's) dust
- eat (something or someone) for breakfast
- eat (something) off
- eat (something) out of (something)
- eat alive
- eat and run
- eat at
- eat at the Y
- eat away
- eat away at
- eat crap
- eat crow
- eat crow/humble pie/dirt, to
- eat dirt
- eat face
- eat fill
- eat for two
- eat hat
- eat heart out
- eat high off the hog
- eat high on the hog
- eat humble pie
- eat in
- eat into (something)
- eat it
- eat it up
- eat like a bird
- eat like a bird/horse, to
- eat like a horse
- eat like a pig
- eat lunch
- eat me
- Eat me!
- eat my shorts
- Eat my shorts!
- eat nails
- eat off
- eat one’s gun
- eat one’s hat
- eat one’s heart out
- eat one's cake and have it (too)
- eat one's cake and have it, too
- eat one's cake and have it, too, to
- eat one's hat
- eat one's hat, to
- eat one's heart out
- eat one's heart out, to
- eat one's words
- eat one's words, to
- eat out
- eat out of
- eat out of (one's) hand
- eat out of hand
- eat out of house and home
- eat out of someone's hand
- eat out of someone's hand, to
- eat pussy
- eat salt
- eat salt with
- eat salt with (someone)
- eat somebody alive
- eat somebody out of house and home
- eat somebody's lunch
- eat someone alive
- eat someone out of house and home
- eat someone out of house and home, to
- eat someone’s lunch
- eat someone's dust
- eat someone's lunch
- eat something up
- eat the bread of idleness
- eat through
- eat through (something)
- Eat to live, not live to eat
- eat up
- eat up with
- Eat up!
- eat words
- eat your hat
- eat your heart out
- eat your words
- eat, drink and be merry
- eat, drink, and be merry
- eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die
- for England
- good enough to eat
- hate to eat and run
- have (one's) cake and eat it (too)
- have cake and eat it too
- have someone for breakfast
- have something to eat
- have to eat (one's) words
- have your cake and eat it
- he that would eat the fruit must climb the tree
- He that would eat the kernel must crack the nut
- he, she, etc. won't eat you
- he/she can talk/eat, etc. for England
- high off the hog, eat
- high off the hog, to eat/live
- I could eat a horse
- I could eat a horse!
- I'll eat my hat
- I'll eat my hat!
- Let them eat cake
- mad enough to eat nails
- make (one) eat crow
- make eat crow
- real men don't eat quiche
- so clean (that) (one) could eat off the floor(s)
- so clean you could eat off the floor
- the cat would eat fish, but would not wet her feet
- When do we eat?
- will eat for breakfast
- you are what you eat
- You cannot have your cake and eat it
- you can't have your cake and eat it
- you could eat off the floor(s)
- you eat with that mouth?
- You have to eat a peck of dirt before you die
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expected approach clearance (EAC)An expression used in radio communications to indicate the time at which arriving aircraft should be cleared to begin the approach for a landing. Also known as EAT, or expected approach time.eat
eat (ēt), 1. To take solid food. 2. To chew and swallow any substance as one would food. 3. To corrode. [A.S. etan] eat (ēt)v. ate (āt), eaten (ēt′n), eating, eats v.tr.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.v.intr.a. To consume food.b. To have or take a meal. eat′er n.MCL1 A gene on chromosome 11q21 that encodes an anti-apoptotic protein of the Bcl-2 family.eat (ēt) 1. To take solid food. 2. To chew and swallow any substance as one would food. 3. To corrode. [A.S. etan]Patient discussion about eatQ. I have been struggling with an eating disorder. Can I reverse this? Hi everybody! Here is Tom of 25 yrs old male. I have been struggling with an eating disorder. Now I have low bone density into the osteoporosis level. My level is -2.6. I'm still young, is there hope for me? Can I reverse this? Are there any herbs or other supplements that may help me?A. most people who has eating disorder wouldn't believe you if you'll say them they have a problem. anorexic girls believe they are fat even when they are all skin and bones. you passed that stage. that stage was the hard one. not that you are facing an easy journey, but the hardest part is behind you. here is a site that will be a big help for you: http://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/p.asp?WebPage_ID=286&Profile_ID=41156
Q. what should i eat and not eat A. depends on the situation,but i would talk to a nutrition professional, Q. Can eating carbs help you lose weight? A. nope- they do just the opposite. carbohydrates are a compound sugar. there are diets that use only carbs, diets that use non but in the end- they are just unhealthy.
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Synonyms for eatverb consumeSynonyms- consume
- swallow
- chew
- hoover
- scoff
- devour
- munch
- tuck into
- put away
- gobble
- polish off
- wolf down
verb have a mealSynonyms- have a meal
- lunch
- breakfast
- dine
- snack
- feed
- graze
- have lunch
- have dinner
- have breakfast
- nosh
- take food
- have supper
- break bread
- chow down
- take nourishment
phrase eat into somethingSynonyms- use up
- drain
- exhaust
- consume
- deplete
- devour
- swallow up
phrase eat something awaySynonyms- destroy
- dissolve
- crumble
- rot
- decay
- erode
- wear down
- corrode
- bite into
- waste away
- wear away
Synonyms for eatverb to take (food) into the body as nourishmentSynonyms- consume
- devour
- fare
- ingest
- partake
- chow
verb to do away with completely and destructivelySynonyms- consume
- devour
- swallow
- waste
verb to consume gradually, as by chemical reaction or frictionSynonyms- bite
- corrode
- erode
- gnaw
- wear
- wear away
phrase eat up: to eat completely or entirelySynonyms- consume
- devour
- dispatch
- polish off
- put away
phrase eat up: to use all ofSynonyms- consume
- drain
- draw down
- exhaust
- expend
- finish
- play out
- run through
- spend
- use up
- polish off
phrase eat up: to be avidly interested inSynonymsphrase eat up: to like or enjoy enthusiastically, often excessivelySynonyms- adore
- delight
- dote on
- love
- groove on
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