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Eating

noun

The act of consuming food. Synonym: feeding.

Eat

verb

(past ate, obs. or colloq. eat; past part. eaten, obs. or colloq. eat; pres. part. eating)

Take in solid food. "What did you eat for dinner last night?"

Eat a meal; take a meal. "I didn't eat yet, so I gladly accept your invitation"

Take in food; used of animals only. Synonym: feed. "What do whales eat?"

Worry or cause anxiety in a persistent way. Synonym: eat on.

Use up (resources or materials). Synonyms: consume, deplete, eat up, exhaust, run through, use up, wipe out. "We exhausted our savings" , "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week"

Cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid. Synonyms: corrode, rust. "The steady dripping of water rusted the metal stopper in the sink"

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... dinner he fell again upon his Greek, and in the evening read Spanish until bedtime. In this way he lived and labored for three months, a solitary student in the midst of a community of students; his mind imbued with the grandeurs and dignity of the past while eating flapjacks and molasses at a ...

— Stories of Achievement, Volume III (of 6) - Orators and Reformers • Various

... smile at the sizzling steak, took one whiff of the coffee and slid from the saddle. Eating was one of the ...

— Oh, You Tex! • William Macleod Raine

... Indian villages were everywhere upon the banks; but their people were of a very low order,—very jackals of humanity; dirty, flea-bitten packs, whose physical and moral constitutions plainly showed the debilitating effects of unnumbered generations of fish-eating, purposeless life. Physical and moral decency usually go hand in hand, even in a state of nature. The Columbia tribes had no conception of either; they were in the same condition then as now, mean-spirited, ...

— Lewis and Clark - Meriwether Lewis and William Clark • William R. Lighton

... afternoon, have seen John Vavasor at the only moment of the day at which he is ever much in earnest. All other things are light and easy to him,—to be taken easily and to be dismissed easily. Even the eating of the dinner calls forth from him no special sign of energy. Sometimes a frown will gather on his brow as he tastes the first half glass from his bottle of claret; but as a rule that which he has prepared for himself ...

— Can You Forgive Her? • Anthony Trollope

... child sweet cakes upon which Bible verses were written. Among the Jews of Galicia, before a babe is placed in the cradle for the first time, it is customary to strew into the latter little pieces of honey-comb. Among the Wotjaks we find the curious belief that those who, in eating honey, do not smear their mouth and hands with it, will die. With children of an older growth,—the second Golden Age,—honey and cakes again appear. Magyar maidens at the new moon steal honey and cakes, cook them, and mix a part in the food of the youth ...

— The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought • Alexander F. Chamberlain

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