Eat
[iːt] or [it]
Definition
(verb.) 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'.
(verb.) take in solid food; 'She was eating a banana'; 'What did you eat for dinner last night?'.
(verb.) worry or cause anxiety in a persistent way; 'What's eating you?'.
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Definition
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(v. t.) To chew and swallow as food; to devour; -- said especially of food not liquid; as, to eat bread.
(v. t.) To corrode, as metal, by rust; to consume the flesh, as a cancer; to waste or wear away; to destroy gradually; to cause to disappear.
(v. i.) To take food; to feed; especially, to take solid, in distinction from liquid, food; to board.
(v. i.) To taste or relish; as, it eats like tender beef.
(v. i.) To make one's way slowly.
Typist: Nicholas
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Chew and swallow.[2]. Corrode, consume, wear away.
v. n. [1]. Feed, take food.[2]. Act corrosively.[3]. [Colloquial.] Taste, relish.
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Definition
v.t. to chew and swallow: to consume: to corrode.—v.i. to take food:—pr.p. eat′ing; pa.t. ate (āt or et); pa.p. eaten (ētn) or (obs.) eat (et).—adj. Eat′able fit to be eaten.—n. anything used as food (chiefly pl.).—ns. Eat′age grass or fodder for horses &c.: the right to eat; Eat′er one who or that which eats or corrodes; Eat′ing the act of taking food.—p.adj. that eats: corroding.—ns. Eat′ing-house a place where provisions are sold ready dressed: a restaurant; Good′-eat′ing something good for food.—Eat away to destroy gradually: to gnaw; Eat in used of the action of acid; Eat its head off used of an animal which costs as much for food as it is worth; Eat one's heart to pine away brooding over misfortune; Eat one's terms to study for the bar with allusion to the number of times in a term that a student must dine in the hall of an Inn of Court; Eat one's words to retract: to recant; Eat out to finish eatables: to encroach upon; Eat the air (Shak.) to be deluded with hopes; Eat up to devour: to consume absorb; Eat well to have a good appetite.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication humectation and deglutition.
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Examples
- She had provided a plentiful dinner for them; she wished she could know that they had been allowed to eat it. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Now I could eat a little more. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Whate'er they be, I'll eat my head, But I will beat them hollow. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Nobody got enough to eat; the bedclothes were too short and too thin; it was 28 degrees below zero, and the wash-water was frozen solid. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Then we'll go and eat up all the raisins. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Here's something to eat, poor boy, says Guster. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The gal's manners is dreadful vulgar; and the boy breathes so very hard while he's eating, that we found it impossible to sit at table with him. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The cutting away when there's anything wrong, and the eating all the wittles when there's everything right; is that his branch? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- While eating his cake, I could not forbear expressing my secret wish that I really knew all of which he accused me. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I will leave your house without eating or drinking, or setting foot in it. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The girls were eating cheese and apples. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Young Freeling was a gentleman, as far as grammar and eating with his fork went; and Fanny proposed our going to Covent Garden together that evening. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- In a little while we hear stories of an Omayyad Caliph, Walid II (743-744), who mocked at the Koran, ate pork, drank wine, and did not pray. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Both ate and drank, but Riderhood much the more abundantly. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Of those we ate many. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I ate them by two or three at a mouthful, and took three loaves at a time, about the bigness of musket bullets. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Being hungry, I ate and was grateful. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Robert Jordan drank another cup of wine while he ate. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I had never liked Sir Percival, but the manner in which he left Lady Glyde made me feel ashamed of having eaten his bread and lived in his service. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Take at one dose at 10 o’clock in the morning, having eaten no breakfast and having taken a full dose of Rochelle salts the previous night. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- The milk sipped and the bread eaten, Fanny was again summoned. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- After I had eaten I was greatly invigorated, but feeling the need of rest I stretched out upon the silks and was soon asleep. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- The worms have eaten the cloth a good deal--there's the stain which Sir Pitt--ha! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Round two sides of it, the sides nearest to the interior of the church, ran heavy wooden presses, worm-eaten and gaping with age. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- He need be, for he eats enough,' observed the lady. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Blessed if I don't think that ven a man's wery poor, he rushes out of his lodgings, and eats oysters in reg'lar desperation. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- In fact, it is my private opinion that she eats most of what goes up on the tray to Mr. Moore. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- If she's mad with her, she eats one before her face, and doesn't offer even a suck. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I eat, thou eatest, he eats, we eat, you eat, they eat--and what then? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- They say he goes about the state-rooms when the passengers are out, and eats up all the soap. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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