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[eet] verb, ate [eyt; especially Brit. et] or (Archaic) eat [et, eet] ; eat·en or (Archaic) eat [et, eet] ; 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.
EXPANDto use up, especially wastefully; consume (often followed 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.
COLLAPSESlang: 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.
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Eats
is always a great word to know.
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| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
noun
Verb phrases10.
11.
eat away/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.
Idiomseat 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.
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. 16).
17.
eat humble pie. humble pie (def. 3).
18.
EXPANDeat in, to eat or dine at home.
19.
eat one's heart out. heart (def. 26).
20.
eat one's terms. term (def. 17).
21.
eat one's words. word (def. 16).
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.
COLLAPSEeat the wind out of, Nautical. to blanket (a sailing vessel sailing close-hauled) by sailing close on the weather side of.
Origin:
before 900; Middle English eten, Old English etan; cognate with German essen, Gothic itan, Latin edere
before 900; Middle English eten, Old English etan; cognate with German essen, Gothic itan, Latin edere
Related forms
eat·er, noun
out·eat, verb (used with object), out·ate, out·eat·en, out·eat·ing.
un·der·eat, verb (used without object), un·der·ate, un·der·eat·en, un·der·eat·ing.
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Word Origin & History
eat
O.E. etan (class V strong verb; past tense æt, pp. eten), from P.Gmc. *etanan (cf. O.N. eta, Goth. itan, Ger. essen), from PIE base *ed- "to eat" (see edible). Transferred sense of "slow, gradual corrosion or destruction" is from 1550s. Meaning "to preoccupy, engross"
EXPAND(as in what's eating you?) first recorded 1893. Slang sexual sense of "do cunnilingus on" is first recorded 1927. Eat out "dine away from home" is from 1933. The slang phrase to eat one's words is from 1570s; to eat one's heart out is from 1590s; for eat one's hat, see hat.
eats
"food," in use mid-19c. in U.S., considered colloquial, but the same construction with the same meaning was present in O.E.
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Medical Dictionary
eat (ēt)
v. ate (āt), eat·en (ēt'n), eat·ing, eats
To take into the body by the mouth for digestion or absorption.
To consume, ravage, or destroy by or as if by ingesting, such as by a disease.
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Slang Dictionary
eat (sth) definition
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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