eat

Plural: eats

Verb

Verb Forms: ate, et, eaten, eating, eats

To consume food; to take a meal.
take in solid food
- "She was eating a banana"
- "What did you eat for dinner last night?"
eat a meal; take a meal
- "We did not eat until 10 P.M. because there were so many phone calls"
- "I didn't eat yet, so I gladly accept your invitation"
take in food; used of animals only
- "This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat"
- "What do whales eat?"
worry or cause anxiety in a persistent way
- "What's eating you?"
use up (resources or materials)
cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid
To ingest; to be ingested.
To consume (something solid or semi-solid, usually food) by putting it into the mouth and swallowing it.
To ingest; to be ingested.
To consume a meal.
To ingest; to be ingested.
To be eaten.
To ingest; to be ingested.
To have a particular quality of diet; to be well-fed or underfed (typically as "eat healthy" or "eat good").
To use up.
To destroy, consume, or use up.
To use up.
To consume (an exception, an event, etc.) so that other parts of the program do not receive it.
To use up.
To damage, destroy, or fail to eject a removable part or an inserted object.
To use up.
To consume money (or other instruments of value, such as a token) deposited or inserted by a user, while failing to either provide the intended product or service or return the payment.
To cause (someone) to worry.
To take the loss in a transaction.
To be injured or killed by (something such as a firearm or its projectile), especially in the mouth.
To corrode or erode.
To perform oral sex (on a person or body part).
To be very good; to rule, to slay.
To annex.

Noun

Something to be eaten; a meal; a food item.

Examples

Eat me!
He hoped his opponent would EAT up his bluff and fall for the trap.
He's eating an apple. / Don't disturb me now; can't you see that I'm eating?
I ate his ass.
It's a soup that eats like a meal.
John is late for the meeting because the photocopier ate his report.
The acid rain ate away the statue. The strong acid eats through the metal.
The VHS recorder just ate the tape and won't spit it out.
The video game in the corner just ate my quarter.
This project is eating up all the money.
This song eats!
What time do we eat this evening?
What's eating you?
Yeah, eat that dick / eat that pussy.
You ate that performance!

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English eten, from Old English etan (“to eat”), from Proto-West Germanic *etan, from Proto-Germanic *etaną (“to eat”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁édti, from *h₁ed- (“to eat”).

Synonyms

consume, corrode, deplete, eat on, eat up, exhaust, feed, run through, rust, use up, wipe out, bang, bother, chow down, devour, dine, disturb, eat, eat and leave no crumbs, eat out, excel, feed one's face, fret, go hard, have, kick, kick ass, rock, rule, shine, slap, slay, swallow, worry

Scrabble Score: 3

eat: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
eat: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
eat: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 3

eat: valid Words With Friends Word