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Noun eating has 1 sense
- eating, feeding - the act of consuming food
--1 is a kind of consumption, ingestion, intake, uptake
--1 has parts: chew, chewing, mastication, manduction
--1 has particulars: | | bite, chomp; browse, browsing; coprophagy, coprophagia; dining; engorgement; feasting, banqueting; geophagy, geophagia, pica; graze, grazing; lunching; repletion, surfeit; supping; tasting, savoring, savouring, relishing, degustation; necrophagia, necrophagy; omophagia; scatophagy |
Verb eat has 6 senses
- eat - take in solid food; "She was eating a banana"; "What did you eat for dinner last night?"
--1 is a kind of eat; consume, ingest, take in, take, have
Sample sentence:
They eat more bread
- eat - 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"
--2 is one way to consume, ingest, take in, take, have
Sample sentence:
Sam and Sue eat
- feed, eat - take in food; used of animals only; "This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat"; "What do whales eat?"
--3 is one way to consume, ingest, take in, take, have
Sample sentence:
The animals eat
- consume, eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out - use up (resources or materials); "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week"
--4 is one way to spend, expend, drop
Sample sentence:
They eat more bread
- eat, eat on - worry or cause anxiety in a persistent way; "What's eating you?"
--5 is one way to worry, vex
Sample sentence:
The bad news will eat him
- corrode, eat, rust - cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid; "The acid corroded the metal"; "The steady dripping of water rusted the metal stopper in the sink"
--6 is one way to damage
Sample sentence:
Something ----s something
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