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Definitions for Eat

[1] to take into the mouth and swallow for nourishment; chew and swallow (food).
[2] to consume by or as if by devouring gradually; wear away; corrode: The patient was eaten by disease and pain.
[3] to make (a hole, passage, etc.), as by gnawing or corrosion.
[4] to ravage or devastate: a forest eaten by fire.
[5] to use up, especially wastefully; consume (often followed by up ): Unexpected expenses have been eating up their savings.
[6] to absorb or pay for: The builder had to eat the cost of the repairs.
[7] Slang : Vulgar . to perform cunnilingus or fellatio on.
[8] to consume food; take a meal: We'll eat at six o'clock.
[9] to make a way, as by gnawing or corrosion: Acid ate through the linoleum.
[10] eats, Informal . food.
[11] eat away /into , to destroy gradually, as by erosion: For eons, the pounding waves ate away at the shoreline.
[12] eat out , to have a meal at a restaurant rather than at home.
[13] eat up , to consume wholly. to show enthusiasm for; take pleasure in: The audience ate up everything he said. to believe without question.
[14] be eating (someone) , Informal . to worry, annoy, or bother: Something seems to be eating him—he's been wearing a frown all day.
[15] eat crow . crow1(def 7) .
[16] eat high off the hog . hog(def 16) .
[17] eat humble pie . humble pie(def 3) .
[18] eat in , to eat or dine at home.
[19] eat one's heart out . heart(def 26) .
[20] eat one's terms . term(def 17) .
[21] eat one's words . word(def 16) .
[22] eat out of one's hand . hand(def 49) .
[23] eat (someone) out of house and home , to eat so much as to strain someone's resources of food or money: A group of hungry teenagers can eat you out of house and home.
[24] eat (someone's) lunch , Slang . to thoroughly defeat, outdo, injure, etc.
[25] eat the wind out of , Nautical . to blanket (a sailing vessel sailing close-hauled) by sailing close on the weather side of.
[26] to take into the mouth and swallow (food, etc), esp after biting and chewing
[27] (tr; often foll by away or up) to destroy as if by eating the damp had eaten away the woodwork
[28] (often foll by into) to use up or waste taxes ate into his inheritance
[29] (often foll by into or through ) to make (a hole, passage, etc) by eating or gnawing rats ate through the floor
[30] to take or have (a meal or meals) we always eat at six
[31] (tr) to include as part of one's diet he doesn't eat fish
[32] (tr) informal to cause to worry; make anxious what's eating you?
[33] (tr) slang to perform cunnilingus or fellatio upon
[34] I'll eat my hat if informal I will be greatly surprised if (something happens that proves me wrong)
[35] eat one's heart out to brood or pine with grief or longing
[36] eat one's words to take back something said; recant; retract
[37] eat out of someone's hand to be entirely obedient to someone
[38] eat someone out of house and home to ruin someone, esp one's parent or one's host, by consuming all his food
[39] Tanzania (international car registration)

Words related to Eat

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

Words nearby Eat

easy-breezy, easy-care, easy-going, easy-money policy, easygoing, eat, eat and run, eat away at, eat crow, eat high off the hog, eat humble pie

Origin of Eat

before 900; Middle English eten, Old English etan; cognate with German essen, Gothic itan, Latin edere

Other words from Eat

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 Eat

from E(ast) A(frica) T(anganyika) or E(ast) A(frica) Z(anzibar)

Synonyms for Eat

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