Definitions for eat

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Spelling: [eet]

IPA: /it/

Eat is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 3 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 3 points.

You can make 17 anagrams from letters in eat (aet).

Definitions for eat

noun

1. eats, Informal. food.

Idioms

1. be eating someone, Informal. to worry, annoy, or bother:
2. eat crow. crow1 (def 7).
3. eat high off the hog. hog (def 16).
4. eat humble pie. humble pie (def 3).
5. eat in, to eat or dine at home.
6. eat one's heart out. heart (def 26).
7. eat one's terms. term (def 17).
8. eat one's words. word (def 16).
9. eat out of one's hand. hand (def 49).
10. eat someone out of house and home, to eat so much as to strain someone's resources of food or money:
11. eat someone's lunch, Slang. to thoroughly defeat, outdo, injure, etc.
12. eat the wind out of, Nautical. to blanket (a sailing vessel sailing close-hauled) by sailing close on the weather side of.

Verb phrases

1. eat away/into, to destroy gradually, as by erosion:
2. eat out, to have a meal at a restaurant rather than at home.
3. eat up, to consume wholly. to show enthusiasm for; take pleasure in: to believe without question.

verb (used with object)

1. to take into the mouth and swallow for nourishment; chew and swallow (food).
2. to consume by or as if by devouring gradually; wear away; corrode:
3. to make (a hole, passage, etc.), as by gnawing or corrosion.
4. to ravage or devastate:
5. to use up, especially wastefully; consume (often followed by up):
6. to absorb or pay for:
7. Slang: Vulgar. to perform cunnilingus or fellatio on.

verb (used without object)

1. to consume food; take a meal:
2. to make a way, as by gnawing or corrosion:

Origin of eat

before 900; Middle English eten, Old English etan; cognate with German essen, Gothic itan, Latin edere

Examples for eat

They look so beautifully, if it only were not necessary to eat them.

Now, his new book “The Bulletproof Diet,” claims to offer a weight loss solution that lets you have your butter, and eat it too.

Windich shot three emus that were coming to the water, and we all had plenty of them to eat.

We did justice to the supper, as we had not had anything to eat for thirty-two hours.

You said, 'We hadn't got nothin' to eat in de house,' and what did I say to you?

That seemed short enough—but after studying it, I says, What's the use of saying 'eat'?

I try to eat less processed food, like whole grains, fruits and vegetables, nothing over-processed.

Two Indonesian airlines, Garuda and Lion Air, have seen Fernandes eat their lunch and are only now responding.

Still, I wish that DuVernay had given us more about those who are less famous besides a scene where they all eat dinner together.

Tribole tells her patients not to change what they eat but how.