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English

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Etymology

etan, from Germanic *itan-, from Indo-European *h₁ed-. Cognate with Scots aet, Dutch eten, German essen, Swedish äta; and (from IE) with Ancient Greek {{term|ἔδω|tr=edō|lang=grc|sc=polytonic}}, Latin edo|edō, Russian ем, Lithuanian esti|ésti.

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /iːt/,
  • IPA: /it/,
  • An audio transcript can be found at en-us-eat.ogg


Verb

{{en-verb|eats|eating|ate|eaten}}

  1. To consume (something solid or semi-solid, usually food) by putting it into the mouth and swallowing it.
  2. : He’s eating an apple.
  3. : Don’t disturb me now; can't you see I’m eating?
  4. To consume a meal.
  5. : What time do we eat this evening?
  6. To cause (someone) to worry.
  7. : What’s eating you?
  8. To take the loss in a transaction
  9. : It’s a special order, we can’t send it back; if the customer won’t accept it, we’ll have to eat the 40 tons of steel ourselves.


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West Frisian

Pronoun

eat

  1. something, anything


Category:West Frisian pronouns

da:eat de:eat el:eat es:eat fa:eat fr:eat gl:eat ko:eat io:eat id:eat it:eat kk:eat ku:eat lo:eat hu:eat nl:eat ja:eat no:eat pl:eat pt:eat ro:eat ru:eat simple:eat fi:eat sv:eat ta:eat te:eat th:eat vi:eat tr:eat uk:eat zh:eat

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Eat \Eat\ ([=e]t), v. t. [imp. Ate ([=a]t; 277), Obsolescent &
Colloq. Eat ([e^]t); p. p. Eaten ([=e]t"'n), Obs. or
Colloq. Eat ([e^]t); p. pr. & vb. n. Eating.] [OE. eten,
AS. etan; akin to OS. etan, OFries. eta, D. eten, OHG. ezzan,
G. essen, Icel. eta, Sw. [aum]ta, Dan. [ae]de, Goth. itan,
Ir. & Gael. ith, W. ysu, L. edere, Gr. 'e`dein, Skr. ad.
[root]6. Cf. Etch, Fret to rub, Edible.]
1. To chew and swallow as food; to devour; -- said especially
of food not liquid; as, to eat bread. "To eat grass as
oxen." --Dan. iv. 25.
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They . . . ate the sacrifices of the dead. --Ps.
cvi. 28.
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The lean . . . did eat up the first seven fat kine.
--Gen. xli.
20.
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The lion had not eaten the carcass. --1 Kings
xiii. 28.
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With stories told of many a feat,
How fairy Mab the junkets eat. --Milton.
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The island princes overbold
Have eat our substance. --Tennyson.
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His wretched estate is eaten up with mortgages.
--Thackeray.
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2. To corrode, as metal, by rust; to consume the flesh, as a
cancer; to waste or wear away; to destroy gradually; to
cause to disappear.
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To eat humble pie. See under Humble.

To eat of (partitive use). "Eat of the bread that can not
waste." --Keble.

To eat one's words, to retract what one has said. (See the
Citation under Blurt.)

To eat out, to consume completely. "Eat out the heart and
comfort of it." --Tillotson.

To eat the wind out of a vessel (Naut.), to gain slowly to
windward of her.

Syn: To consume; devour; gnaw; corrode.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Eat \Eat\, v. i.
1. To take food; to feed; especially, to take solid, in
distinction from liquid, food; to board.
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He did eat continually at the king's table. --2 Sam.
ix. 13.
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2. To taste or relish; as, it eats like tender beef.
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3. To make one's way slowly.
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To eat, To eat in or To eat into, to make way by
corrosion; to gnaw; to consume. "A sword laid by, which
eats into itself." --Byron.

To eat to windward (Naut.), to keep the course when
closehauled with but little steering; -- said of a vessel.
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WordNet eat
v 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?" [syn: feed]
4: 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" [syn: consume, eat up, use up,
deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out]
5: worry or cause anxiety in a persistent way; "What's eating
you?" [syn: eat on]
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" [syn: corrode,
rust]
[also: eaten, ate]
Moby Dictionary
ablate , absorb , assimilate , bite , bleed white , break bread ,
burn up , canker , consume , corrode , count calories , deplete , devour ,
diet , digest , disregard , dissolve , down , drain , drain of resources ,
drink , eat away , eat into , eat out , eat up , engorge , engulf , erode ,
etch , exhaust , expend , fall to , fare , feed , feed on , finish ,
finish off , gnaw , gobble , gobble up , gulp , gulp down , hunger ,
ignore , imbibe , impoverish , ingest , ingurgitate , meal , nibble away ,
oxidize , partake , partake of , pitch in , pocket , pocket the affront ,
relish , rust , savor , spend , squander , stomach , suck dry , swallow ,
swallow an insult , swallow up , swill , swill down , take , taste ,
turn aside provocation , use up , waste away , wear away , wolf down


EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition. "I was in the drawing-room, enjoying my dinner," said Brillat- Savarin, beginning an anecdote. "What!" interrupted Rochebriant; "eating dinner in a drawing-room?" "I must beg you to observe, monsieur," explained the great gastronome, "that I did not say I was eating my dinner, but enjoying it. I had dined an hour before."
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