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Eat   /it/   Listen
Eat

verb
(past ate, obs. or colloq. eat; past part. eaten, obs. or colloq. eat; pres. part. eating)
1.
Take in solid food.  "What did you eat for dinner last night?"
2.
Eat a meal; take a meal.  "I didn't eat yet, so I gladly accept your invitation"
3.
Take in food; used of animals only.  Synonym: feed.  "What do whales eat?"
4.
Worry or cause anxiety in a persistent way.  Synonym: eat on.
5.
Use up (resources or materials).  Synonyms: consume, deplete, eat up, exhaust, run through, use up, wipe out.  "We exhausted our savings" , "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week"
6.
Cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid.  Synonyms: corrode, rust.  "The steady dripping of water rusted the metal stopper in the sink"



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"Eat" Quotes from Famous Books



... is hungry; we are both hungry. We have had nothing to eat all day. Mother gave us money before she went out to buy bread and milk, but father came and took it ...
— Frederick the Great and His Court • L. Muhlbach
... and "l'amour" occupied his time. They went out little. Sometimes Sidi Tart'ri, with his lady mounted on the crupper, went on mule-back to eat pomegranates in a little garden which he had bought in the neighbourhood... but never on any account did they go down to the European part of the town, which with its drunken Zouaves, its bordellos full of officers and the sound of sabres trailing on the ground beneath the arcade, seemed ...
— Tartarin de Tarascon • Alphonse Daudet
... round of inspection at seven o'clock, and Allen asked if they were to be allowed to have anything to eat or drink. ...
— The Hero of Ticonderoga - or Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys • John de Morgan
... drove up to Ellis Corners post office late the next Friday afternoon Marty waylaid him and demanded to be taken aboard. "Drive a half-mile further east," he said after their boisterous greetings. "That's where we eat to-night—at Ambery's. Then just across the road to the church. We've got something ...
— John Wesley, Jr. - The Story of an Experiment • Dan B. Brummitt
... the middle of July, and as long before as the 23d of June a French fleet of ten galleys and thirty-five trans-ports had been driven off by the English. John de Vienne wrote to Philip, "Everything has been eaten, cats, dogs, and horses, and we can no longer find victual in the town unless we eat human flesh. . . . If we have not speedy succor, we will issue forth from the town to fight, whether to live or die, for we would rather die honorably in the field than eat one another. . . . If a remedy be not soon applied, you will never more have letter from me, and the ...
— A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times - Volume II. of VI. • Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot


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