eat

noun

(colloquial) Something to be eaten; a meal; a food item.

verb

(ambitransitive) To consume (something solid or semi-solid, usually food) by putting it into the mouth and swallowing it.

(intransitive) To consume a meal.

To ingest; to be ingested.

(copulative, intransitive) To have a particular quality of diet; to be well-fed or underfed (typically as "eat healthy" or "eat good").

(transitive, often with up) To destroy, consume, or use up.

To use up.

(transitive, informal, of a vending machine or similar device) 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.

(transitive, informal) To cause (someone) to worry.

(transitive, business) To take the loss in a transaction.

(transitive, slang) To be injured or killed by (something such as a firearm or its projectile), especially in the mouth.

(intransitive, ergative) To be eaten.

(transitive, programming, informal) To consume (an exception, an event, etc.) so that other parts of the program do not receive it.

(transitive, informal, of a device) To damage, destroy, or fail to eject a removable part or an inserted object.

(ambitransitive) To corrode or erode.

(transitive, slang) To perform oral sex (on a person or body part).

(stative, slang) To be very good; to rule, to slay.

(transitive, slang) To annex.

Synonyms for eat

consumev feedv mealn devourv ingestv gobblen dietn gnawv bitev corrodev

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