eat

Meaning

Verb

1. (ambitransitive) To ingest; to be ingested.
2. (intransitive) To ingest; to be ingested.
3. (ergative, intransitive) To ingest; to be ingested.
4. (copulative, intransitive) To ingest; to be ingested.
5. (often, transitive, with-up) To use up.
6. (informal, transitive) To use up.
7. (informal, transitive) To use up.
8. (informal, transitive) To use up.
9. (informal, transitive) To cause (someone) to worry.
10. (transitive) To take the loss in a transaction.
11. (slang, transitive) To be injured or killed by (something such as a firearm or its projectile), especially in the mouth.
12. (ambitransitive) To corrode or erode.
13. (slang, transitive) To perform oral sex (on a person or body part).
14. (slang, stative) To be very good; to rule, to slay.
15. (slang, transitive) To annex.

Noun

Something to be eaten; a meal; a food item.

Synonyms

consume

drink

🥤

devour

feed

dine

food

🍽️

eat up

chew

swallow

take

bite

graze

corrode

use up

have

ingest

gobble

rust

enjoy

use

have a bite

snack

take a meal

gnaw

feed on

taste

wipe out

run through

smoke

peck

guzzle

gulp

wolf

🐺

deplete

exhaust

gorge

victual

wear

take in

sup

eating

cakes

suck

partake

lose

meal

browse

destroy

suffer

fret

Translations

manger

🍽️

comer

🍽️

essen

🍽️

mangiare

🍽️

comer

🍽️

eten

🍽️

menjar

τρώω

أكل

🍽️

fressen

🍽️

τρώγω

speisen

yemek

🍽️

edere

Pronounced as (IPA)

/iːt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: eten

Inherited from Old English: etan

Inherited from Middle English: ete

Inherited from Old English: ǣt

Cognate with Northern Frisian: ad

Cognate with German: Aas

Cognate with Norwegian: åt

Cognate with Icelandic: át

In summary

From Middle English eten, from Old English etan (“to eat”), from Proto-West Germanic *etan, from Proto-Germanic *etaną (“to eat”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁édti, from *h₁ed- (“to eat”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots ait (“to eat”), Yola at, ayth, eight (“to eat”), North Frisian iidj, iit, ääse (“to eat”), Saterland Frisian iete, íete (“to eat”), West Frisian ite (“to eat”), Alemannic German asse, assu, essen, ässe, ässä (“to eat”), Bavarian eisn, essn, èssn (“to eat”), Cimbrian èssan, èzzan (“to eat”), Dutch, Low German eten (“to eat”), German essen (“to eat”), Luxembourgish iessen (“to eat”), Mòcheno èssn (“to eat”), Vilamovian aosa (“to eat”), Yiddish עסן (esn, “to eat”), Danish æde (“to eat”), Elfdalian jätå (“to eat”), Faroese eta (“to eat”), Icelandic eta, éta (“to eat”), Norwegian Bokmål ete (“to eat”), Norwegian Nynorsk eta, ete, åtå (“to eat”), Swedish äta (“to eat”), Gothic 𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (itan, “to eat”).

Sentences

Why , he would eat us all up .

It was just ripe enough to eat .

These are social birds which eat mainly small fruit and only rarely take insects .