Eat

  • 51eat — Synonyms and related words: ablate, absorb, assimilate, bite, bleed white, break bread, burn up, canker, consume, corrode, count calories, deplete, devour, diet, digest, disregard, dissolve, down, drain, drain of resources, drink, eat away, eat… …

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  • 52eat — 1. To take solid food. 2. To chew and swallow any substance as one would food. 3. To corrode. [A.S. etan] * * * Eating Attitudes Test; Ehrlich ascites tumor; electro aerosol therapy; epidermolysis acuta toxica; experimental autoimmune thymitis;… …

    Medical dictionary

  • 53eat up — 1) PHRASAL VERB When you eat up your food, you eat all of it. [V P n (not pron)] Eat up your lunch... [V n P] Some seed fell along the footpath, and the birds came and ate it up. 2) PHRASAL VERB If something eats up money, time, or resources, it… …

    English dictionary

  • 54eat it up — I. finish eating some food, eat all of the food    That s a good boy. Eat it up and then you can go out to play. II. believe a story, eat out of the palm...    The children were eating it up every word the teacher said …

    English idioms

  • 55eat up — begin to eat, continue to eat, dig in    Eat up, folks. We have lots of pancakes …

    English idioms

  • 56eat —    to indulge in fellatio or cunnilingus    Usually specifying what is being figuratively consumed, such as meat1, pork1, pussy1, and other slang terms for the penis or vagina:     Wouldn t you like to eat my pussy? (Robbins, 1981 the woman was… …

    How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

  • 57eat — 1. tv. [for something] to bother or worry someone. □ What’s eating you, Bill? □ Nothing’s eating me. I’m just the nervous type. 2. tv. to absorb the cost or expense of something. □ It was our mistake, and we’ll have to eat it …

    Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

  • 58eat up — in. to eat in enjoyment. (Usually a command.) □ Come on, now. Sit down and eat up! □ Eat up! There’s plenty more where this came from …

    Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

  • 59eat — See: DOG EAT DOG, LIVE HIGH OFF THE HOG or EAT HIGH ON THE HOG, LOOK LIKE THE CAT THAT ATE THE CANARY …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 60eat — See: DOG EAT DOG, LIVE HIGH OFF THE HOG or EAT HIGH ON THE HOG, LOOK LIKE THE CAT THAT ATE THE CANARY …

    Dictionary of American idioms