Definitions for eatings

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eatings eat·ing

Spelling: [ee-ting]

IPA: /ˈi tɪŋ/

Eatings is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 285 anagrams from letters in eatings (aeginst).

Definitions for eatings

noun

1. the act of a person or thing that eats.
2. food with reference to its quality or tastiness when eaten:
3. 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.

adjective

1. good or fit to eat, especially raw (distinguished from cooking):
2. used in eating:

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 eatings

Middle English word dating back to 1125-75; See origin at eat, -ing¹, -ing²

Examples for eatings

What celebrity has started to talk about his or her eating disorder?

They are becoming more aware of what eating disorders are and what they look like.

They were thinking: "That greedy little girl has gone on and on eating."

Genetics alone does not an eating disorder make, generally speaking, and Bulik points out that environment still plays a role.

"But his sitting there eating in that—that shirt—" said his sister.

I hung it up this morning, for the pig with the black feet was eating it.

The eating disorder field remains divided over the potential efficacy of such measures.

She sat back in her chair, eating little, starting at every step.

eating disorders, researchers believed, were essentially more severe forms of disordered eating.

A man is but a beast as he lives from day to day, eating and drinking, breathing and sleeping.