Eat

  • 41eat in — verb eat at home • Syn: ↑dine in • Ant: ↑eat out • Hypernyms: ↑eat • Verb Frames: Somebody s Sam and Sue eat in …

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  • 42eat — verb (past ate ɛt, eɪt; past participle eaten) 1》 put (food) into the mouth and chew and swallow it.     ↘(eat out or in) have a meal in a restaurant (or at home). 2》 (eat something away or eat away at/into) erode or destroy something gradually.… …

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  • 43eat — [[t]it[/t]] v. ate [[t]eɪt[/t]] esp. brit. [[t]ɛt[/t]] eat•en [[t]ˈit n[/t]] eat•ing, 1) phl to take into the mouth and swallow for nourishment; chew and swallow (food) 2) to consume gradually; wear away; corrode 3) cvb to use up, esp. wastefully …

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  • 44eat — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. consume, devour, eat up, feed, fare; erode, corrode, wear, rust. See food, deterioration. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To take as food] Syn. consume, devour, bite, chew, swallow, dine, feed, feed on, have a …

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  • 45eat up — phrasal verb Word forms eat up : present tense I/you/we/they eat up he/she/it eats up present participle eating up past tense ate up past participle eaten up 1) [intransitive/transitive] mainly spoken to eat all of something Come on, eat up your… …

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  • 46eat — v. 1) to eat heartily, voraciously 2) (d; intr.) to eat into (acid eats into metal) 3) (d; intr., tr.) to eat out of (our cat eats out of her own dish) * * * [iːt] voraciously to eat heartily (d; intr.) to eat into (acid eats into metal) (d; intr …

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  • 47EAT. — Infobox Company name = EAT. type = Cafe genre = foundation = 1996 founder = Niall FaithMacArthur location city = London location country = UK location = locations = area served = key people = industry = products = services = revenue = (2007) £60m …

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  • 48eat — [OE] Eat is a very ancient and basic verb. It goes back to Indo European *ed ‘eat’ (distant ancestor of English tooth), which produced the basic word for ‘eat’ in most European languages, apart from French, Italian, Romanian, and the Celtic… …

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  • 49eat — [OE] Eat is a very ancient and basic verb. It goes back to Indo European *ed ‘eat’ (distant ancestor of English tooth), which produced the basic word for ‘eat’ in most European languages, apart from French, Italian, Romanian, and the Celtic… …

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  • 50eat — I. verb (ate; eaten; eating) Etymology: Middle English eten, from Old English etan; akin to Old High German ezzan to eat, Latin edere, Greek edmenai Date: before 12th century transitive verb 1. to take in through the mouth as food ; ingest, chew …

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