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.

eat

consume

drink

devour

feed

dine

food

eat up

swallow

chew

take

corrode

use up

have

bite

graze

ingest

rust

gobble

enjoy

snack

taste

use

feed on

gnaw

take a meal

have a bite

deplete

exhaust

run through

wipe out

gulp

guzzle

wolf

gorge

smoke

peck

eat on

take food

wear

partake

meal

breakfast

destroy

take in

finish eating

browse

sup

victual

suck

chewing noisily

eat meal

eat meat

scavange

be eaten

gobble up

fret

eating

have a meal

cost

lose

suffer

cakes

nosh

lunch

live on

subsist on

refer to

speak of

buy

catch

put on

ride in

put into the mouth

count

polish off

scoff

offer

erode

annoy

bother

finish

absorb

pasture

bit

chop

feed upon

chow

fare

kill

make

glut

crop

nibble at

grub

consumed

devoured

eaten

crunch

chew on

win

i.e.

gormandize

afflict

ail

beleaguer

beset

blackguard

bullyrag

devil

dun

ferret

get to

harry

hassle

pester

plague

rankle

tease

vex

abrade

burn

degrade

drain

drop

eat away

expend

fool away

get through

incinerate

lay out

rub down

scuff

spend

wear away

wear down

wear off

brunch

nibble

nip

bolt

try

wash down

wash out

gulp down

gluttony

spoonfeed

test

batten

chiggle

chiggrul

gorm

break bread

globbe

grind

hurt

torture

swallow down

benefit from

brook

fuddle

quaff

ate

eats

bait

sunset

thrive

minced meat

abundance

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”).