eat

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Meaning

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

consume

feed on

have a bite

take a meal

have a meal

be eaten

take food

finish eating

chewing noisily

eat on

eat meat

eat meal

scavange

refer to

ride in

benefit from

feed upon

nibble at

put into the mouth

speak of

subsist on

i.e.

swallow down

chiggle

chiggrul

globbe

minced meat

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/iːt/

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”).