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verb

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

To chew and swallow as food; to devour; said especially of food not liquid; as, to eat bread. "To eat grass as oxen." "They... ate the sacrifices of the dead." "The lean... did eat up the first seven fat kine." "The lion had not eaten the carcass." "With stories told of many a feat, How fairy Mab the junkets eat." "The island princes overbold Have eat our substance." "His wretched estate is eaten up with mortgages."

To corrode, as metal, by rust; to consume the flesh, as a cancer; to waste or wear away; to destroy gradually; to cause to disappear.

To eat humble pie. See under Humble.

To eat of (partitive use). "Eat of the bread that can not waste."

To eat one's words, to retract what one has said. (See the Citation under Blurt.)

To eat out, to consume completely. "Eat out the heart and comfort of it."

To eat the wind out of a vessel (Naut.), to gain slowly to windward of her.

Synonyms: To consume; devour; gnaw; corrode.

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

To take food; to feed; especially, to take solid, in distinction from liquid, food; to board. "He did eat continually at the king's table."

To taste or relish; as, it eats like tender beef.

To make one's way slowly.

To eat, To eat in or To eat into, to make way by corrosion; to gnaw; to consume. "A sword laid by, which eats into itself."

To eat to windward (Naut.), to keep the course when closehauled with but little steering; said of a vessel.

noun

Eating n.

The act of tasking food; the act of consuming or corroding.

Something fit to be eaten; food; as, a peach is good eating. (Colloq.)

Eating house, a house where cooked provisions are sold, to be eaten on the premises.

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Etymology of 'Eating'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Eating" Quotes from Famous Books

... 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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