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eat

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eat

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eat as in take in solid food
  • She was eating a banana
  • What did you eat for dinner last night?
eat as in 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
eat as in take in food
  • used of animals only
  • This dog doesn’t eat certain kinds of meat
  • What do whales eat?

Synonyms

  • feed food for domestic livestock ; provide as food; give food to; feed into; introduce continuously; support or promote; take in food; serve as food for; move along, of liquids; profit from in an exploitatory manner; gratify; provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to
eat as in worry or cause anxiety in a persistent way
  • What’s eating you?

Synonyms

  • eat on worry or cause anxiety in a persistent way
eat as in 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

  • consume eat up completely, as with great appetite; serve oneself to, or consume regularly; spend extravagantly; destroy completely; use up (resources or materials); engage fully
  • eat up finish eating all the food on one’s plate or on the table; use up (resources or materials); enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing
  • use up use up (resources or materials); require (time or space)
  • deplete use up (resources or materials)
  • exhaust gases ejected from an engine as waste products ; system consisting of the parts of an engine through which burned gases or steam are discharged ; wear out completely; use up (resources or materials); deplete; use up the whole supply of; eliminate (a substance)
  • run through apply thoroughly; use up (resources or materials)
  • wipe out use up (resources or materials); kill in large numbers; eliminate completely and without a trace; remove from memory or existence; mark for deletion, rub off, or erase; wipe out the effect of something
eat as in 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 cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid; become destroyed by water, air, or a corrosive such as an acid
  • rust of the brown color of rust ; become destroyed by water, air, or a corrosive such as an acid; cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid; become coated with oxide ; a red or brown oxide coating on iron or steel caused by the action of oxygen and moisture ; a plant disease that produces a reddish-brown discoloration of leaves and stems; the formation of reddish-brown ferric oxides on iron by low-temperature oxidation in the presence of water ; any of various fungi causing rust disease in plants