Eat

v. t.	1.	To chew and swallow as food; to devour; - said especially of food not liquid; as, to eat bread. [imp. Ate (āt; 277), Obsolescent & Colloq. Eat (ĕt); p. p. Eaten (ēt"'n), Obs. or Colloq. Eat (ĕt); p. pr. & vb. n. Eating.] They . . . ate the sacrifices of the dead. - Ps. cvi. 28. The lean . . . did eat up the first seven fat kine. - Gen. xli. 20. The lion had not eaten the carcass. - 1 Kings xiii. 28. With stories told of many a feat, How fairy Mab the junkets eat. - Milton. The island princes overbold Have eat our substance. - Tennyson. His wretched estate is eaten up with mortgages. - Thackeray.
	2.	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. To eat humble pie See under Humble. To eat of partitive use). To eat one's words to retract what one has said. (See the Citation under Blurt. - Keble. To eat out to consume completely. To eat the wind out of a vessel (Naut.) to gain slowly to windward of her. - Tillotson.
v. i.	1.	To take food; to feed; especially, to take solid, in distinction from liquid, food; to board. He did eat continually at the king's table. - 2 Sam. ix. 13.
	2.	To taste or relish; as, it eats like tender beef.
	3.	To make one's way slowly. To eat to make way by corrosion; to gnaw; to consume. To eat to windward (Naut.) to keep the course when closehauled with but little steering; - said of a vessel. - Byron.

Verb	1.	eat - take in solid food; "She was eating a banana"; "What did you eat for dinner last night?"
	2.	eat - 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"
	3.	eat - take in food; used of animals only; "This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat"; "What do whales eat?" Synonyms: feed
	4.	eat - use up (resources or materials); "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week" Synonyms: deplete, use up, wipe out, eat up, exhaust, run through, consume
	5.	eat - worry or cause anxiety in a persistent way; "What's eating you?" Synonyms: eat on
	6.	eat - cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid; "The acid corroded the metal"; "The steady dripping of water rusted the metal stopper in the sink" Synonyms: corrode, rust

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