eat

Definitions of eat in various dictionaries:

verb - take in solid food

verb - eat a meal

verb - take in food

verb - worry or cause anxiety in a persistent way

verb - use up (resources or materials)

verb - cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid

To take into the body by the mouth for digestion or absorption.

To include habitually or by preference in one’s diet: a bird that eats insects, fruit, and seeds; stopped eating red meat on advice from her doctor.

To consume, ravage, or destroy by or as if by ingesting: “Covering news in the field eats money” (George F.

To erode or corrode: waves that ate away the beach; an acid that eats the surface of a machine part.

To produce by or as if by eating: Moths ate holes in our sweaters.

Slang.

To bother or annoy: What’s eating him? — v.

To consume food.

To have or take a meal.

To exercise a consuming or eroding effect: a drill that ate away at the rock; exorbitant expenses that were eating into profits.

To receive or enjoy enthusiastically or avidly: She really eats up the constant publicity.

To feel bitter anguish or grief.

To overwhelm or defeat thoroughly: an inexperienced manager who was eaten alive in a competitive corporate environment.

verb - to consume food

EAT - Eating (also known as consuming) is the ingestion of food, typically to provide a heterotrophic organism with energy and to allow for growth. Animal...