"eat" Definition

Definitions for the word "eat" from multiple English dictionaries.

1.
of Eat
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. v. t.
To chew and swallow as food; to devour; -- said especially of food not liquid; as, to eat bread.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. v. i.
To take food; to feed; especially, to take solid, in distinction from liquid, food; to board.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. v. i.
To taste or relish; as, it eats like tender beef.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. v. i.
To make one's way slowly.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. v.
(past ate; past part. Eaten) 1 a take into the mouth, chew, and swallow (food). B consume food; take a meal. C devour (eaten by a lion). 2 (foll. By away, at, into) a destroy gradually, esp. By corrosion, disease, etc. B begin to consume or diminish (resources etc.). 3 colloq. Trouble, vex (what''s eating you?). n. (in pl.) Colloq. Food. eat one''s heart out suffer from excessive longing or envy. Eat out have a meal away from home, esp. In a restaurant. Eat up 1 eat completely.
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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