eat

Phonetic

US /iːt/UK /iːt/

Translations

VERBTo ingest; to be ingested. To consume (something solid or semi-solid, usually food) by putting it into the mouth and swallowing it., To ingest; to be ingested. To consume a meal., To ingest; to be ingested. To be eaten., To ingest; to be ingested. To have a particular quality of diet; to be well-fed or underfed (typically as "eat healthy" or "eat good")., To use up. To destroy, consume, or use up., To use up. To consume (an exception, an event, etc.) so that other parts of the program do not receive it., To use up. To damage, destroy, or fail to eject a removable part or an inserted object., To use up. 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., To cause (someone) to worry., To take the loss in a transaction., To be injured or killed by (something such as a firearm or its projectile), especially in the mouth., To corrode or erode., To perform oral sex (on a person or body part)., To be very good; to rule; to rock.

NOUNSomething to be eaten; a meal; a food item.

Variants

eats: Third Person Singular, Plural
eating: Present Participle
ate: Past Tense
eaten: Past Participle
ated: Past Tense, Past Participle

Examples

And directly behind the couches on which they would sit and eat, there was a row of tombstones.
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Why is it that although(虽然) China is already the second largest economy(经济) in the world, most Chinese people have no food to eat and can only survive(生存) by eating rats(大鼠) and chewing tree bark(树皮)?
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Weak jaws that can’t puncture/ˈpʌŋktʃər/ human skin, generally only move around in the dark, eat other bugs you don’t want around, almost always breed/briːd/ outside rather than inside, solitary/ˈsɑːləteri/ so they don’t nest with others, and just as terrified of you as vice versa.
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A Bistro Boom, Lesser-Known Museums, Sesame Croissants: What to Do, Eat, See in Paris
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It’s like kind of like how humans eat food to gain energy, and generate waste, too.
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