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ate

[eyt; Brit. et] Pronunciation Key

–verb

pt. of eat.

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A·te

[ey-tee, ah-tee] Pronunciation Key

–noun

an ancient Greek goddess personifying the fatal blindness or recklessness that produces crime and the divine punishment that follows it.

[Origin: < Gk, special use of áté reckless impulse, ruin, akin to aáein to mislead, harm

]

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ATE

equipment that makes a series of tests automatically.

[Origin: a(utomatic) t(est) e(quipment)

]

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eat

[eet] Pronunciation Key verb, ate [eyt; especially Brit. et] Pronunciation Key or (Archaic

) eat [et, eet] Pronunciation Key; eat·en or (Archaic

) eat [et, eet] Pronunciation Key; eat·ing; noun

–verb (used with object)

1.	to take into the mouth and swallow for nourishment; chew and swallow (food).

2.	to consume by or as if by devouring gradually; wear away; corrode: The patient was eaten by disease and pain.

3.	to make (a hole, passage, etc.), as by gnawing or corrosion.

4.	to ravage or devastate: a forest eaten by fire.

5.	to use up, esp. wastefully; consume (often fol. by up): Unexpected expenses have been eating up their savings.

6.	to absorb or pay for: The builder had to eat the cost of the repairs.

7.	Slang: Vulgar. to perform cunnilingus or fellatio on.

–verb (used without object)

8.	to consume food; take a meal: We'll eat at six o'clock.

9.	to make a way, as by gnawing or corrosion: Acid ate through the linoleum.

–noun

10.	eats, Informal. food.

—Verb phrases

11.	eat away or into, to destroy gradually, as by erosion: For eons, the pounding waves ate away at the shoreline.

12.	eat out, to have a meal at a restaurant rather than at home.

13.

eat up,

a.	to consume wholly.

b.	to show enthusiasm for; take pleasure in: The audience ate up everything he said.

c.	to believe without question.

—Idioms

14.	be eating someone, Informal. to worry, annoy, or bother: Something seems to be eating him—he's been wearing a frown all day.

15.	eat crow. crow¹ (def. 7).

16.	eat high off the hog. hog (def. 9).

17.	eat humble pie. humble pie (def. 3).

18.	eat in, to eat or dine at home.

19.	eat one's heart out. heart (def. 24).

20.	eat one's terms. term (def. 17).

21.	eat one's words. word (def. 15).

22.	eat out of one's hand. hand (def. 49).

23.	eat someone out of house and home, to eat so much as to strain someone's resources of food or money: A group of hungry teenagers can eat you out of house and home.

24.	eat someone's lunch, Slang. to thoroughly defeat, outdo, injure, etc.

25.	eat the wind out of, Nautical. to blanket (a sailing vessel sailing close-hauled) by sailing close on the weather side of.

[Origin: bef. 900; ME eten, OE etan; c. G essen, Goth itan, L edere

]

—Related forms

eater, noun

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ate (āt) Pronunciation Key
v. Past tense of eat.

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A·te (ā'tē, ä'tē, ä'tā) Pronunciation Key
n. Greek Mythology
The goddess of criminal rashness and consequent punishment.

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eat   (ēt) Pronunciation Key
v.   ate (āt), eat·en (ēt'n), eat·ing, eats

v.   tr.

1. To take into the body by the mouth for digestion or absorption.
2. To take in and absorb as food: a plant that eats insects; a cell that eats bacteria.
3. 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.
To destroy, ravage, or use up by or as if by ingesting: "Covering news in the field eats money" (George F. Will).
To erode or corrode: waves that ate away the beach; an acid that eats the surface of a machine part.
To produce by or as if by eating: Moths ate holes in our sweaters.
Slang To absorb the cost or expense of: "You can eat your loss and switch the remaining money to other investment portfolios" (Marlys Harris).
Informal To bother or annoy: What's eating him?
Vulgar Slang To perform cunnilingus on. Often used with out.

v. intr.

1. To consume food.
2. To have or take a meal.
To exercise a consuming or eroding effect: a drill that ate away at the rock; exorbitant expenses that were eating into profits.
To cause persistent annoyance or distress: "How long will it be before the frustration eats at you?" (Howard Kaplan).

Phrasal Verb(s):
eat up Slang

To receive or enjoy enthusiastically or avidly: She really eats up the publicity.
To believe without question: He'll eat up whatever the broker tells him.

Idiom(s):
eat crow
To be forced to accept a humiliating defeat.

Idiom(s):
eat (one's) heart out

To feel bitter anguish or grief.
To be consumed by jealousy.

Idiom(s):
eat (one's) words
To retract something that one has said.

Idiom(s):
eat out of (someone's) hand
To be manipulated or dominated by another.

Idiom(s):
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: 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.

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