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Meaning eat meaning

What does eat mean?
Definitions in simple English

eat Verb

— If you eat something, usually food, you put it in your mouth, chew it, and swallow it. I always eat too much good when it's Thanksgiving. My 2 year old accidentally ate chalk that she found on the table. — If you eat the cost of something, you pay for it. The supplier will have to eat the cost of returning the goods. — If you eat someone, you give them sex with your mouth (oral sex)

eat

— verb take in solid food She was eating a banana What did you eat for dinner last night? — verb 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 — verb take in food; used of animals only This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat What do whales eat? — verb worry or cause anxiety in a persistent way What's eating you? — verb (= corrode, rust) 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 — verb (= consume, use up, exhaust, run through) 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 eat synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as eat?

eat English » English

consume drink devour feed dine food eat up swallow chew take use up have graze corrode bite ingest rust gobble enjoy use taste take a meal snack have a bite gnaw feed on wolf wipe out smoke run through peck guzzle gulp gorge exhaust deplete wear victual take in take food sup suffer suck scavange partake meal lose have a meal gobble up fret

EAT English » English

expected approach time electronic angle tracking

Topics eat topics

What do people use eat to talk about?
Daily life Food Eat

Manner of eating
Person Body Head

Mouth
Daily life Food

Eat
Daily life Food Eat

Fast, not eat
States Quality Good Decay

Rust
Daily life Food Eat

Meal
Daily life Food Eat

Satiated, full
Work and occupation Agriculture Harvest

First fruits
Work and occupation Finance Financial transaction

Spend
States Quantity More

Decrease

Conjugation eat conjugation

How do you conjugate eat?

eat · verb

Examples eat examples

How do I use eat in a sentence?

Simple sentences

We're going to eat a lot tonight so I hope you're not on a diet.
Eat whatever you like.
You ought to eat more slowly.
If you eat so much, you'll get sick.
You shouldn't eat here.
We need something to eat.
He didn't give me anything to eat.
She likes to eat fresh raw vegetables.
You must not eat too much ice-cream and spaghetti.
You don't have to eat it.
I eat here.
He didn't eat anything yesterday.
Cows eat grass.
If you don't eat, you die.
If you don't eat, you'll die.
Why don't you eat vegetables?
Why don't you eat some vegetables?
To him, hunger was an abstract concept; he always had enough to eat.
What did you eat for lunch today?
You have been thinking about this problem the whole morning. Take a break; go eat lunch.
If you eat too much, you'll become fat.
If you eat too much, you will get fat.
You will get fat if you eat too much.
Who does not work, also does not have the right to eat.
He who does not work does not have the right to eat.
He will make you eat dirt.
Can you eat raw oysters?
You had better not eat too much.
You should eat more, or you won't get well soon.

Movie subtitles

These girls need to be in jail and eat bean rice to wake them up.
You didn't eat, did you?
We don't have much food, but do you want to eat at my house?
Hey, Galchi, eat.
You know I'm a gangster, right? Do you want to get hit or do you want to eat?
Venice, eat your heart out.
And the murderers and the robbers, and the AIDS, and the snakes, and the safari ants, which can actually plant their eggs underneath your skin and eat you from the inside out.
With all the flour you can eat!
We eat through our mouths but we breathe through our mouths and we can choke on food.
If you look throughly, there are a lot of things you can eat.
Anyway, they are things you can't eat or sell.
They eat raw onions.
Please eat them!
A guy gave his kidney, and. and, um. He developed an unexplainable appetite for pumpkin pie. Wouldn't eat anything else.
Yaouled, make sure your sheep don't eat my wife's flowers.
Go on, eat.
We can't eat all this.
Politeness dictates you have to eat a lot.
Grab a plate. Eat with me.
I can't eat it.
They trample our seedlings and eat our wheat.
I don't eat with my hands anymore.
All right, listen, the kid doesn't eat until you do it.
Can we eat already?
Time to eat!
In this prison, you can only eat. sleep. and breathe.
The pain will go away if you eat.
For all of you to eat!
How many sandwiches can you and your friends eat?
Hey, guys, Frankie's crew's paying Cory five bucks to eat some larva, and he's gonna do it.
Come on! I only eat bugs when I'm really hungry, like when my mom sleeps in and forgets to pack my lunch.
I can't eat; can't sleep.
Aww! Nobody eat these sandwiches!
How much did you eat?
They kept him in a hideout, and brought him bottles of water, and all he did was drink and eat asparagus.
Eat it!
Eat the bars.
Muzzy, why do you eat clocks?
Does she always eat mood stabilizers like this?
If you eat more our Gong Shil will get a stomachache.
Cake, eat the cake.

News and current affairs

One in eight Americans depends on Food Stamps to eat.
When we eat our meals, we are unaware of the deforestation that has resulted from unsustainable farming.
As long as crippling economic sanctions remain in place, the government will be unable to have its yellowcake and eat it, too.
Over a 20-year period, for example, the Chinese had doubled the amount of meat they eat.
The young worker does not learn how to play, or how to read and write; worse, he smokes and, in the Caribbean, he drinks cane rum to keep going, as he doesn't have enough to eat.
Just as governments have used laws, regulations, and other tools with great success to discourage smoking, so must they encourage citizens to eat a balanced diet - for the sake of their health and that of our planet.
Another quick gain could come from encouraging people to eat more plant-based foods, perhaps by taxing meat and using the revenue to subsidize more sustainable alternatives.
But if the US exercises a brand of statesmanship different from the one that has so far put it on the defensive on almost every front, it could start to eat away at the foundations of that axis.
But this success, and the stability it brings, will be temporary if corruption continues, like corrosive acid, to eat away at the economy and the state.
So we need to understand how what we eat interacts with our bodies - or, more specifically, our genes - to affect our health.
Our bodies simply cannot synthesize many essential compounds, so our health partly depends on what we eat and drink.
In short, we should stop taking pills and eat more fruits and vegetables.
Americans eat more often in restaurants, make ample use of laundry, dry-cleaning, and shopping services, and hire nannies to take care of young infants.
It also reminds us that food forms an integral part of our cultural, religious, or regional identities, because what we eat and how we produce our foods are deeply rooted in our histories and traditions.
Like Iran, however, Kim wants to have his cake and eat it: eventual acceptance as a nuclear power and all the economic enticements from the US, Europe, Russia, and China to de-nuclearize.
Health problems may take you to a clinic, but many of them start with how you behave at home - what you eat and drink, whether you smoke or exercise or sleep enough, etc.
At the most basic level, governments must take a hard look at conscription and territorial defense forces, which eat up far too much of Europe's military budgets.
Like the view that running away from lions provokes them to eat you, there is a grain of truth in the view that banks fail because depositors panic.
It also argued that labeling GM foods is required in accordance with consumers' right to make informed choices about what they eat.
But is it really a wise and ethically acceptable strategy to burn food rather than eat it?
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