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Definitions for Ate

[1] simple past tense of eat.
[2] an ancient Greek goddess personifying the fatal blindness or recklessness that produces crime and the divine punishment that follows it.
[3] equipment that makes a series of tests automatically.
[4] to take into the mouth and swallow for nourishment; chew and swallow (food).
[5] to consume by or as if by devouring gradually; wear away; corrode: The patient was eaten by disease and pain.
[6] to make (a hole, passage, etc.), as by gnawing or corrosion.
[7] to ravage or devastate: a forest eaten by fire.
[8] to use up, especially wastefully; consume (often followed by up ): Unexpected expenses have been eating up their savings.
[9] to absorb or pay for: The builder had to eat the cost of the repairs.
[10] Slang : Vulgar . to perform cunnilingus or fellatio on.
[11] to consume food; take a meal: We'll eat at six o'clock.
[12] to make a way, as by gnawing or corrosion: Acid ate through the linoleum.
[13] eats, Informal . food.
[14] eat away /into , to destroy gradually, as by erosion: For eons, the pounding waves ate away at the shoreline.
[15] eat out , to have a meal at a restaurant rather than at home.
[16] eat up , to consume wholly. to show enthusiasm for; take pleasure in: The audience ate up everything he said. to believe without question.
[17] a suffix occurring in loanwords from Latin, its English distribution paralleling that of Latin. The form originated as a suffix added to a- stem verbs to form adjectives (separate ). The resulting form could also be used independently as a noun (advocate ) and came to be used as a stem on which a verb could be formed (separate; advocate; agitate ). In English the use as a verbal suffix has been extended to stems of non-Latin origin: calibrate; acierate .
[18] a specialization of -ate1, used to indicate a salt of an acid ending in -ic , added to a form of the stem of the element or group: nitrate; sulfate .
[19] a suffix occurring originally in nouns borrowed from Latin, and in English coinages from Latin bases, that denote offices or functions (consulate; triumvirate; pontificate ), as well as institutions or collective bodies (electorate; senate ); sometimes extended to denote a person who exercises such a function (magistrate; potentate ), an associated place (consulate ), or a period of office or rule (protectorate ). Joined to stems of any origin, ate3 signifies the office, term of office, or territory of a ruler or official (caliphate; khanate; shogunate ).
[20] the past tense of eat
[21] Greek myth a goddess who makes men blind so that they will blunder into guilty acts
[22] (forming adjectives) possessing; having the appearance or characteristics of fortunate ; palmate ; Latinate
[23] (forming nouns) a chemical compound, esp a salt or ester of an acid carbonate ; stearate
[24] (forming nouns) the product of a process condensate
[25] forming verbs from nouns and adjectives hyphenate ; rusticate
[26] denoting office, rank, or a group having a certain function episcopate ; electorate
[27] Tanzania (international car registration)
[28] to take into the mouth and swallow (food, etc), esp after biting and chewing
[29] (tr; often foll by away or up) to destroy as if by eating the damp had eaten away the woodwork
[30] (often foll by into) to use up or waste taxes ate into his inheritance
[31] (often foll by into or through ) to make (a hole, passage, etc) by eating or gnawing rats ate through the floor
[32] to take or have (a meal or meals) we always eat at six
[33] (tr) to include as part of one's diet he doesn't eat fish
[34] (tr) informal to cause to worry; make anxious what's eating you?
[35] (tr) slang to perform cunnilingus or fellatio upon
[36] I'll eat my hat if informal I will be greatly surprised if (something happens that proves me wrong)
[37] eat one's heart out to brood or pine with grief or longing
[38] eat one's words to take back something said; recant; retract
[39] eat out of someone's hand to be entirely obedient to someone
[40] eat someone out of house and home to ruin someone, esp one's parent or one's host, by consuming all his food

Words related to Ate

feed, chew, dine, inhale, bite, nibble, ingest, attack, devour, pick, swallow, drain, gormandize, scarf, snack, cram, masticate, absorb, scoff, dispatch

Words nearby Ate

atb, atbara, atc, atchafalaya, atchison, ate, atebrin, atef-crown, atelectasis, ateleiosis, atelier

Origin of Ate

-ate3< Latin -ātus (genitive -ātūs ), generalized from v. derivatives, as augurātus office of an augur (augurā(re) to foretell by augury + -tus suffix of v. action), construed as derivative of augur augur1

Words that may be confused with Ate

ate, eight

Other words from Ate

eat·er , noun
out·eat , verb (used with object), out·ate, out·eat·en, out·eat·ing.
un·der·eat , verb (used without object), un·der·ate, un·der·eat·en, un·der·eat·ing.

Word origin for Ate

eatOld English etan; related to Gothic itan, Old High German ezzan, Latin edere, Greek edein, Sanskrit admi

Synonyms for Ate

attack, bite, chew, devour, dine, feed, ingest, inhale, nibble, pick, swallow, absorb, banquet, bolt, breakfast, cram, digest, dispatch, gorge, gormandize, graze, lunch, masticate, munch, nosh, ruminate, scarf, scoff, snack, sup, wolf, break bread, chow down, dispose of, fall to, feast upon, gobble up, have a bite, have a meal, have for, make pig of oneself, partake of, peck at, pig out, polish off, pork out, put away, take food, take in, take nourishment