eat

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Verb

1. To ingest. To consume (something solid or semi-solid, usually food) by putting it into the mouth and swallowing it.
   • He's eating an apple.
   • Don't disturb me now. Can't you see that I'm eating?
   • What time do we eat this evening?
   • I try to eat healthy these days.
2. To consume (something solid or semi-solid, usually food) by putting it into the mouth and swallowing it.
   • He's eating an apple.
   • Don't disturb me now. Can't you see that I'm eating?
3. To consume a meal.
   • What time do we eat this evening?
4. To have a particular quality of diet; to be well-fed or underfed.
   • I try to eat healthy these days.
5. To be ingested.
   • It's a soup that eats like a meal.
6. To be savored or enjoyed; to taste in a specified way.
   • It's an unattractive dish, but it eats pretty good.
7. To use up. To destroy, consume, or use up.
   • This project is eating up all the money.
   • That hobby eats his savings.
   • The VHS recorder just ate the tape and won't spit it out.
   • John is late for the meeting because the photocopier ate his report.
   • The video game in the corner just ate my quarter.
8. To destroy, consume, or use up.
   • This project is eating up all the money.
   • That hobby eats his savings.
9. To consume (an exception, an event, etc.) so that other parts of the program do not receive it.
10. To damage, destroy, or fail to eject a removable part or an inserted object.
    • The VHS recorder just ate the tape and won't spit it out.
    • John is late for the meeting because the photocopier ate his report.
11. To consume money (or other instruments of value, such as a token) deposited or inserted by a user, while failing to either provide the intended product or service or return the payment.
    • The video game in the corner just ate my quarter.
12. To cause (someone) to worry.
    • What's eating you?
13. To take the loss in a transaction.
14. To be injured or killed by (something such as a firearm or its projectile), especially in the mouth.
15. To corrode or erode.
    • The acid rain ate away the statue. The strong acid eats through the metal.
16. To perform oral sex (on a person or body part).
    • Eat me!
    • I ate his ass.
    • Yeah, eat that dick / eat that pussy.
17. To do or perform well and stunningly; to consume a challenge successfully and stylishly; to rule, to slay.
    • You ate that performance!
    • This song eats!
18. To act well (in a role); to be intensely devoted (to a role).
    • Most of the movie was pretty weak, but she ate her role, and I couldn't take my eyes off her.
19. To annex.

Noun

1. Something to be eaten; a meal; a food item.

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