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Definitions of eat:

verb: eat a meal; take a meal
Example: "We did not eat until 10 P.M. because there were so many phone calls"
verb: take in solid food
Example: "She was eating a banana"
verb: worry or cause anxiety in a persistent way
Example: "What's eating you?"
verb: cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid
verb: take in food; used of animals only
Example: "This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat"
verb: use up (resources or materials)

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Words and phrases that have a meaning related to eat: (204 results)
Synonyms:
consume, corrode, eat on, eat up, exhaust, feed, run through, rust, use up, wipe out

More general:
chew, damage, drop, expend, get down, have, ingest, jaw, manducate, masticate, spend, swallow, take, take in, worry

More specific:
banquet, binge, bolt down, bolt, break bread, breakfast, browse, brunch, burn, burn off, burn up, crop, devour, dig in, dine, dine in, dine out, dip, dissipate, down, drain, dunk, eat in, eat out, englut, engorge, fare, feast, finish, fool away, fool, forage, fress, fritter away, fritter, frivol away, glut, gluttonize, gobble, gobble up, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, go through, gourmandize, graze, gulp, guttle, indulge, ingurgitate, junket, lunch, luxuriate, mess, munch, nibble, nosh, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pasture, peck at, peck, pick at, pick, pick up, picnic, piece, pig, pig out, pitch in, polish off, put away, range, raven, ruminate, sap, satiate, scarf out, shoot, shovel in, slurp, smack, snack, stuff, sup, tuck away, tuck in, use, victual, wash down, wine and dine, wolf down, wolf

Often used in the same context:
food, sleep, dinner, meal, drink, fat, cake, cook, eating, grass, read, restaurant, taste, appetite, bite, cheese, each, table, bead, egg, elephant, few, ugly, ant, birds, cannibal, dining, fill, hunger, kick, leaf, mall, mile, plate, pompous, sheets, shower, starving, supper

Appears in the definition of:
armillariella mellea, be full, cannibalise, cannibalize, canteen, cater, chopstick, chopsticks, clothes moth, cram, dainty, delicacy, delicatessen, delicatessen food, diet, doggie bag, doggy bag, druthers, eating house, eating place, edacity, edibility, edibleness, esurience, fill up, goody, greedy, grieve, honey fungus, honey mushroom, hungry, jam, kickshaw, mess hall, nonpoisonous, nontoxic, ogre, poisonous, porringer, preference, ravenousness, slather, sorrow, stomach, voraciousness, voracity

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