eat > define

verb

• Take in solid food.
  • usage: "She was eating a banana"; "What did you eat for dinner last night"
• Eat a meal; take a meal.
  • usage: "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"
• Take in food; used of animals only.
  • usage: "This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat"; "What do whales eat"
  • synonyms: feed
• Worry or cause anxiety in a persistent way.
  • usage: "What's eating you"
  • synonyms: eat on
• Use up (resources or materials. )
  • usage: "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week"
  • synonyms: consume, eat up, use up, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out
• Cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid.
  • usage: "The acid corroded the metal"; "The steady dripping of water rusted the metal stopper in the sink"
  • synonyms: corrode, rust

• (v.i.) To make one's way slowly.
• (v.i.) To taste or relish; as, it eats like tender beef.
• (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.
• of Eat.
• (v.t.) To chew and swallow as food; to devour; -- said especially of food not liquid; as, to eat bread.
• of Eat.
• (v.i.) To take food; to feed; especially, to take solid, in distinction from liquid, food; to board.