Eat

Definition: Eat

Eat

Verb

1. Take in solid food; "She was eating a banana"; "What did you eat for dinner last night?".

2. 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. Take in food; used of animals only: "This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat"; "What do whales eat?".

4. Use up, as of resources or materials; "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week".

5. Worry or cause anxiety in a persistent way: "What's eating you?".

6. 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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "eat" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Satire

Multilingual Slang

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Eat

Excitability

Tolerate, suffer, stand, bide; abide, aby; bear with, put up with, take up with, abide with; acquiesce; submit; (yield); submit with a good grace; resign oneself to, reconcile oneself to; brook, digest, eat, swallow, pocket, stomach.

Food

Verb: eat, feed, fare, devour, swallow, take; gulp, bolt, snap; fall to; despatch, dispatch; discuss; take down, get down, gulp down; lay in, tuck in; lick, pick, peck; gormandize; bite, champ, munch, cranch, craunch, crunch, chew, masticate, nibble, gnaw, mumble.

Live on; feed upon, batten upon, fatten upon, feast upon; browse, graze, crop, regale; carouse; (make merry); eat heartily, do justice to, play a good knife and fork, banquet.

Gluttony

Verb: gormandize, gorge; overgorge, overeat oneself; engorge, eat one's fill, cram, stuff; guttle, guzzle; bolt, devour, gobble up; gulp; (swallow food); raven, eat out of house and home.

Inactivity

Take it easy, take things as they come; lead an easy life, vegetate, swim with the stream, eat the bread of idleness; loll in the lap of luxury, loll in the lap of indolence; waste time, consume time, kill time, lose time; burn daylight, waste the precious hours.

Physical Pleasure

Verb: feel pleasure, experience pleasure, receive pleasure; enjoy, relish; luxuriate in, revel in, riot in, bask in, swim in, drink up, eat up, wallow in; feast on; gloat over, float on; smack the lips.

Prodigality

Verb: be prodigal; Adjective: squander, lavish, sow broadcast; pour forth like water; blow, blow in; pay through the nose; (dear); spill, waste, dissipate, exhaust, drain, eat out of house and home, overdraw, outrun the constable; run out, run through; misspend; throw good money after bad, throw the helve after the hatchet; burn the candle at both ends; make ducks and drakes of one's money; fool away one's money, potter away one's money, muddle away one's money, fritter away one's money, throw away one's money, run through one's money; pour water into a sieve, kill the goose that lays the golden eggs; manger son ble en herbe.

Reception

Verb: give entrance to, give admittance to, give the entree; introduce, intromit; usher, admit, receive, import, bring in, open the door to, throw in, ingest, absorb, imbibe, inhale, breathe in; let in, take in, suck in, draw in; readmit, resorb, reabsorb; snuff up, swallow, ingurgitate; engulf, engorge; gulp; eat, drink; (food).

Sociality

Verb: be sociable; Adjective: know; be acquainted; Adjective: associate with, sort with, keep company with, walk hand in hand with; eat off the same trencher, club together, consort, bear one company, join; make acquaintance with; (friendship); make advances, fraternize, embrace.

Submission

Eat dirt, eat the leek, eat humble pie; bite the dust, lick the dust; be at one's feet, fall at one's feet; craven; crouch before, throw oneself at the feet of; swallow the leek, swallow the pill; kiss the rod; turn the other cheek; avaler les couleuvres, gulp down.

Sufficiency

Verb: be sufficient; Adjective:; suffice, do, just do, satisfy, pass muster; have enough; Noun: eat. one's fill, drink one's fill, have one's fill; roll in, swim in; wallow in; (superabundance) ; wanton.

Taking

Oust; (eject); divest; levy, distrain, confiscate; sequester, sequestrate; accroach; usurp; despoil, strip, fleece, shear, displume, impoverish, eat out of house and home; drain, drain to the dregs; gut, dry, exhaust, swallow up; absorb; (suck in); draw off; suck the blood of, suck like a leech.

Tergiversation

Draw in one's horns, eat one's words; eat the leek, swallow the leek; swerve, flinch, back out of, retrace one's steps, think better of it; come back return to one's first love; turn over a new leaf; (repent).

Crosswords: Eat

Frisian (anything, something), Latin (advance, flow, go, march, pass, ride, sail, the very same, walk), Pidgin English (to eat).

So you can eat my ass (American Pie 2; writing credit: Adam Herz; David H. Steinberg)

Tasty Wheat. Did you ever eat Tasty Wheat (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski)

A girl has got to eat -- (Moulin Rouge!; writing credit: Baz Luhrmann; Craig Pearce)

Or we can just eat a bunch of caramels (Good Will Hunting; writing credit: Ben Affleck, Matt Damon)

Mistletoe can be deadly if you eat it. (Batman Returns; writing credit: Bob Kane; Daniel Waters)

YOU MIGHT NOT MAKE IT HOME TO EAT (Come Back In One Piece; performing artist: Aaliyah)

Or tell me who to eat with sleep with (Goody Two Shoes; performing artist: Adam Ant)

'Cause someday you're going to get hungry and eat all of the words that you just said (32 Flavors; performing artist: Alana Davis)

Where hungry people like to eat (Pinch Me; performing artist: Barenaked Ladies)

Can't walk, can't talk, can't eat, can't sleep (I Get Weak; performing artist: Belinda Carlisle)

Eat Right, Exercise, Die Anyway. (references; author: unknown)

Should vegetarians eat animal crackers? (references; author: unknown)

It's lonely at the top, but you eat better. (references; author: unknown)

Man who eat many prunes get good run for money. (references; author: unknown)

Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow you may diet. (references; author: unknown)

Eat the Document (1972)

Please Don't Eat My Mother (1972)

Eat Anything (1971)

Drink and Make Merrie Eat (1969)

Eat Your Makeup (1968)

Sweetness (performing artist: Jimmy Eat World)

The Middle (performing artist: Jimmy Eat World)

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Books

• Tell Me What to Eat If I Have Acid Reflux: Nutrition You Can Live With (Tell Me What to Eat) (reference)

• Let's Eat (Shaped Little Nugget Book) (reference)

• Strong Women Eat Well : Nutritional Strategies for a Healthy Body and Mind (reference)

• 365 Foods Kids Love to Eat : Nutritious and Kid-Tested (reference)

• Children and Teens Afraid to Eat: Helping Youth in Today's Weight-Obsessed World (Berg, Francie M. Afraid to Eat Series.) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Eat The State (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Jimmy Eat World (reference)

• Please Don't Eat My Mother (reference)

• Magnum PI: Don't Eat the Snow in Hawaii (reference)

• Sesame Street - Let's Eat (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Gershwin: Of Thee I Sing/Let 'em Eat Cake [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

• Jimmy Eat World (reference)

• We Gotta Eat (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• EAT SLEEP MUSIC Kool Karaoke (Windows) (reference)

• Pajama Sam 3: You Are What You Eat From Your Head to Your Feet (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Eat, Drink and Be Merry Dinnerware (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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From an overhead angle, 2 pieces of red meat are shown with a knife on a cutting board, sitting on a white tile counter. Above the image, red lettering reads: "Choose lean meats, trim extra fats, avoid adding fat in cooking". Shot on 4x5 format. This was used in the 1989 calendar "Eat for Good Health" February 1989. See artwork: PV-19. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).

From on overhead angle, a plate of potatoes and green beans, a bowl of tomatoes and yellow peppers with sour cream dip and a tossed salad are shown on a white tablecloth. Across the middle of the table, grey letters read: "Include 3-5 servings of vegetables daily". Shot on 4x5 format. This was used in the 1989 calendar "Eat for Good Health" April 1989. See artwork: PV-19. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).

The phrase "big fish eat little fish" may hold true when it comes to planets and stars. ... Credit: NASA.

Ector B. Latham Getting a bite to eat on the way to Station Armada. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Cobia in baskets - caught off the Carolinas. Cobias opportunistically associate with burrowing stingrays and eat food displaced by rays. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Time to eat the salmon at a community fish fry in support of the United Seiners Association. Credit: Fisheries.

Howie at lunch, even hurricane hunters have to eat. Flying to Tropical Storm Dawn in ESSA research aircraft DC-6 40C. Credit: Flying With NOAA.

Brazilian Pepper bushes are an ornamental from Brazil that looks like Holly. They produce red berries that birds eat. The birds carry their seeds spreading the plant throughout mangrove habitat where the Pepper bush outcompetes the mangroves. The red berries are beautiful but toxic; direct contact with them causes a poison ivy-like rash. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Strawberries ready to eat. Credit: USDA.

Yes, Americans do love their spuds! We each eat about 125 pounds of them a year, about half from fresh potatoes and half in processed foods. Research has brought forth a slew of new, improved potato varieties for both uses. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

It is labour then which puts the greatest part of value upon land, without which it would scarcely be worth any thing: it is to that we owe the greatest part of all its useful products; for all that the straw, bran, bread, of that acre of wheat, is more worth than the product of an acre of as good land, which lies waste, is all the effect of labour: for it is not barely the plough-man's pains, the reaper's and thresher's toil, and the baker's sweat, is to be counted into the bread we eat; the labour of those who broke the oxen, who digged and wrought the iron and stones, who felled and framed the timber employed about the plough, mill, oven, or any other utensils, which are a vast number, requisite to this corn, from its being feed to be sown to its being made bread, must all be charged on the account of labour, and received as an effect of that: nature and the earth furnished only the almost worthless materials, as in themselves. (Second Treatise of Government)

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. (reference)

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Come, and eat my strawberries

Pigs we eat, for they are fat.

Mingle dignity with festivity, eat with deliberation, feast slowly

He sat looking at the two prints of butter on his plate but could not eat the damp bread

We got to eat.

Her Majesty used to put a bit of meat upon one of my dishes, out of which I carved for myself, and her diversion was to see me eat in miniature

In cold weather we eat more, in warm less

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Eat more fiber. (references)

Eat low-fiber foods. (references)

Eat frequent small meals. (references)

Business

IDC predicts that although the market for dot matrix printers will keep growing for the next two years, non-impact technologies such as inkjet and laser will rapidly eat into its share. (references)

As mentioned earlier in this report, there are a growing number of women that are joining the work force, and as their activity increases, it is becoming more and more common to eat out at fast food restaurants. (references)

Currently, the British do not eat in restaurants nearly as often as Americans do; less than 50 percent of the population of 58 million eat out at least once a week, but this is changing because of the increase in two wage-earner families. (references)

Civil Liberties

Jamaica

It is alleged that the police force Rastafarian detainees to cut their hair and surreptitiously give them food that they are forbidden to eat. (references)

Economic History

Mauritius

Many Hindu Mauritians do not eat beef. (references)

Brazil

However, only 34% of pets eat industrialized food. (references)

Human Rights

Paraguay

Recruits commonly charged that the military does not give them enough to eat and forces them to hunt wild animals or steal cattle for food. (references)

Dominican Republic

Inmates surveyed said that the food provided was unacceptable, and most chose to eat whatever they could beg for or purchase from persons in the vicinity of the prison or from family members. (references)

Colombia

In the country's other prisons, inmates pay to eat, drink, sleep on a mattress, wash clothes, or make telephone calls, and also pay protection fees to fellow inmates or to corrupt prison guards. (references)

Travel

Barbados

Foods are safe to eat. (references)

Honduras

Visitors should eat in hotels or in any modern restaurant. (references)

Costa Rica

It is not advisable to eat fruits with broken or bruised skins. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "eat": all you can eat ♦ dog does not eat dog ♦ eat a crow ♦ eat a devil ♦ eat a pussy ♦ eat at ♦ eat away ♦ eat candies ♦ eat cold food ♦ eat corn ♦ eat crow ♦ eat dinner ♦ eat dirt ♦ eat drink and be merry ♦ eat flaming death ♦ eat greedily ♦ eat heartily ♦ eat his breakfast ♦ eat his dinner ♦ eat humble pie ♦ eat in ♦ eat into ♦ eat its way ♦ eat like a bird ♦ eat like a horse ♦ eat like a pig ♦ eat noisily ♦ eat off ♦ eat on ♦ eat one's dinners ♦ eat one's fill ♦ eat one's heart out ♦ eat one's mutton with smb. ♦ eat one's terms ♦ eat one's words ♦ eat out ♦ eat out of house and home ♦ eat out of smb.'s hand ♦ eat plenty of ♦ eat smb. out of house and home ♦ eat smb.'s salt ♦ eat sweet things ♦ eat sweets ♦ eat the leek ♦ eat through ♦ eat together ♦ eat too much ♦ eat unadventurously ♦ eat up ♦ eat up completely ♦ eat with an appetite ♦ eat without paying ♦ eat your fill! ♦ have enough to eat and to spare ♦ he will eat smth. ♦ i could eat a horse ♦ i want to eat ♦ i want to eat smth. ♦ i will eat my hat if ♦ i'll eat my boots if ♦ i'll eat my hat if ♦ make smb. eat his words ♦ make smb. eat humble pie ♦ meal ready to eat ♦ over eat ♦ this is unsafe to eat ♦ To eat ♦ To eat dirt ♦ To eat heartily ♦ To eat humble pie ♦ To eat in ♦ to eat into ♦ To eat of ♦ To eat one's words ♦ To eat out ♦ to eat the seed corn ♦ To eat the wind out of a vessel ♦ To eat to windward ♦ unfit to eat. Additional references.

Beginning with "eat": eat-by, eat-by date, eat-by day, eat-in, eat-up.

Ending with "eat": over-eat, ready-to-eat.

Containing "eat": better-to-eat-you-with, cake-and-eat-it, dog-eat-dog.

Afrikaans

eet (feed). (various references)

Albanian

ha (chamfer, consume, demolish, despatch, dispatch, eat away, elide, erode, feed, ingest, shark). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تناول الفطار, ‏تغدى (dine, lunch), ‏ذهب للأكل, ‏إلتهم (bolt, consume, demolish, devour, eat up, engorge, gobble, gorge, gormandize, guzzle, ingest, make a pig of oneself, munch, overeat, shovel, snap, stuff, swallow, swig, tuck, tuck in, wolf), ‏أكل الوجبة, ‏أكل (bite, manage, run through), ‏أكره على (intimidate). (various references)

Asturian

comer (to eat). (various references)

Aymara

manq'ayaña (to eat). (various references)

Basque

jan (eat to). (various references)

Bemba

ukulya (to eat). (various references)

Blackfoot

ooyi (to eat), ihtatsikiooyi (to eat lunch). (various references)

Bulgarian 

ям (consume, discuss, feed, have, mouth, partake, punish, take, taste, tuck away, victual), яде се, разяждам (attack, bite, burn, canker, corrode, erode, fret, gnaw, rust), храня се (board, fare, subsist, victual), папам. (various references)

Catalan

menjar (feed, meal). (various references)

Cebuano

mokaon (to eat). (various references)

Chamorro

para ma kannó (to eat). (various references)

Chinese 

吃 (destroy, eradicate, receive, stammer). (various references)

Cornish

dybry (to eat). (various references)

Czech

jíst (take). (various references)

Danish

spise (feed), æde (feed). (various references)

Dutch

vreten (feed), gebruiken (drink, employ, feed, make use of, turn to account, use), eten (feed, food, meal, to eat), bikken (chip, chip off, feed). (various references)

Ecuadorian Quechua

micuna (to eat). (various references)

Esperanto

manĝi (feed), man“os, lekumi (eat cunt). (various references)

Faeroese

eta (feed). (various references)

Farsi 

مصرف کردن (Consume, Expend, Use, Useup), تحلیل رفتن (Assimilate, Consume, Dwindle, Gnaw), خوردن (Abut, Feed, Grub, Have, Hurtle, Partake, Sample, Take). (various references)

Finnish

syödä (feed, have one's meals, take). (various references)

French

manger (eating, to eat). (various references)

Frisian

ite (feed, to eat). (various references)

German

essen (cooking, dine, dinner, eating, feed, food, hall, luncheon, meal, mess, to eat), speisen (banquet, dine, feed, supply, to supply), genießen (delight in, drink, enjoy, feed, lap up, relish, savor, savour, soak up, to enjoy, to relish, to savor), fressen (blowout, chow, eat up, feed, fester, food, gobble up, gormandize, grub, guzzle, munch, rankle, scoff, to devour, to eat like a pig, to gorge, to munch, to rankle, to stuff someone with). (various references)

Greek 

τρώγω (grub), τρώω (ingest, nosh). (various references)

Guarani

ja'u (we eat), jakarúta (we shall eat), ja'úta (we shall eat). (various references)

Hawaiian

ha (feed). (various references)

Hebrew 

לאכול (consume, erode, manducate), לברות (taste), אכל (eating, food, meal). (various references)

Hungarian

eszik (fed, feed, to break bread, to chow, to fare, to feed, to scarf, to stomach, to victual, to vittle). (various references)

Icelandic

éta (feed). (various references)

Indonesian

emam, mencicip (chirp, sip at, taste, twitter), memangsa (prey), memakan (consume), dahar, cicip (sip at, taste). (various references)

Inuktitut

nirijuq (to eat). (various references)

Irish

itheann, ith. (various references)

Italian

mangiare (eat up, feed, food, have, take, take one's meals). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

召 (buy, call, catch, drink, put on, ride in, send for, take, wear). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しょう (actor, artisan, award, bruise, buy, call, carpenter, catch, chapter, commander, cut, destroy, drink, gash, general, government, hurt, idea, illness, important point, injury, label, leader, make up for, means, mechanic, medal, phenomenon, prize, put on, quotient, ride in, scar, scratch, section, send for, take, to be burdened with, to carry on back or shoulder, upper part, weak point, wear, workman, wound). (various references)

Kongo

ku-dia (to eat). (various references)

Korean 

먹으십시요. (various references)

Luganda

tunaalya (we shall eat, what shallwe eat), kulya (to eat). (various references)

Macedonian

jade (to eat). (various references)

Malagasy

hisakafo. (various references)

Malay

makan (feed). (various references)

Manx

goaill beaghey. (various references)

Maori

kai-nga (to eat). (various references)

Maya

haant (to eat). (various references)

Norwegian

spise (feed). (various references)

Occitan

manjar. (various references)

Papago

ko'a (to eat). (various references)

Papiamen

kome (feed). (various references)

Pidgin English

eat (to eat). (various references)

Pig Latin