Antonyms for eat
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : eet |
| Phonetic Transcription : it |
Definition of eat
Origin :- Old English etan (class V strong verb; past tense æt, past participle eten) "to eat, devour, consume," from Proto-Germanic *etanan (cf. Old Frisian ita, Old Saxon etan, Middle Dutch eten, Dutch eten, Old High German ezzan, German essen, Old Norse eta, Gothic itan), from PIE root *ed- "to eat" (see edible).
- Transferred sense of "slow, gradual corrosion or destruction" is from 1550s. Meaning "to preoccupy, engross" (as in what's eating you?) first recorded 1893. Slang sexual sense of "do cunnilingus on" is first recorded 1927. Eat out "dine away from home" is from 1933. The slang phrase to eat one's words is from 1570s; to eat one's heart out is from 1590s; for eat one's hat, see hat.
- verb consume food
- verb erode, wear away; use up
- That seemed short enough—but after studying it, I says, What's the use of saying 'eat'?
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- You said, 'We hadn't got nothin' to eat in de house,' and what did I say to you?
- Extract from : « Harriet, The Moses of Her People » by Sarah H. Bradford
- We did justice to the supper, as we had not had anything to eat for thirty-two hours.
- Extract from : « Explorations in Australia » by John Forrest
- I hope to reach the Peake on Wednesday night, where we shall be able to get something to eat.
- Extract from : « Explorations in Australia » by John Forrest
- Windich shot three emus that were coming to the water, and we all had plenty of them to eat.
- Extract from : « Explorations in Australia » by John Forrest
- They look so beautifully, if it only were not necessary to eat them.
- Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- Then they eat, these young, Stubbses and Muggses, how they do eat!
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various
- I ordered Hannah however to eat of it, that I might not be thought sullen.
- Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
- As I eat my breakfast and smoke my pipe, I ponder over my task.
- Extract from : « Ballads of a Bohemian » by Robert W. Service
- I want to eat when I am hungry, sleep when I am weary, drink—well, any old time.
- Extract from : « Ballads of a Bohemian » by Robert W. Service
Synonyms for eat
- absorb
- attack
- banquet
- bite
- bolt
- break bread
- breakfast
- chew
- chow down
- condense
- corrode
- cram
- crumble
- decay
- decompose
- devour
- digest
- dine
- disappear
- disintegrate
- dispatch
- dispose of
- dissipate
- dissolve
- drain
- exhaust
- fall to
- feast upon
- feed
- gnaw
- gobble up
- gorge
- gormandize
- graze
- have a bite
- have a meal
- have for
- ingest
- inhale
- liquefy
- lunch
- make pig of oneself
- masticate
- melt
- munch
- nibble
- nosh
- partake of
- peck at
- pick
- pig out
- polish off
- pork out
- put away
- rot
- ruminate
- run through
- rust
- scarf
- scoff
- snack
- spill
- squander
- sup
- swallow
- take food
- take in
- take nourishment
- vanish
- waste away
- wolf
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