Eat

Verb

 * 1) To consume (something solid or semi-solid, usually food) by putting it into the mouth and swallowing it.
 * 2)  To consume a meal.
 * 3)  To be eaten.
 * 4)  To destroy, consume, or use up
 * 5)  To cause (someone) to worry.
 * 6)  To take the loss in a transaction.
 * 7)  To corrode or erode.
 * 8)  To damage, destroy, or fail to eject a removable part or an inserted object.
 * 9)  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.
 * 10)  To perform oral sex on someone.

Adverbs for Eat
inordinately; leisurely; fastidiously; barbarously; enormously; bestially; heartily; regularly; hurriedly; swiftly; wolfishly; insufficiently; ravenously; incontinently; excessively; sparingly; plentifully; noisily; irrevocably; surreptitiously; swinishly; gluttonously.

Thesaurus
feed, feed on, finish, finish off, gnaw, gobble, gobble up, gulp, gulp down, hunger, ignore, imbibe, impoverish, ingest, ingurgitate, meal, nibble away, oxidize, partake, partake of, pitch in, pocket, pocket the affront, relish, rust, savor, spend, squander, stomach, suck dry, swallow, swallow an insult, swallow up, swill, swill down, take, taste, turn aside provocation, use up, waste away, wear away, wolf down, ablate, absorb, assimilate, bite, bleed white, break bread, burn up, canker, consume, corrode, count calories, deplete, devour, diet, digest, disregard, dissolve, down, drain, drain of resources, drink, eat away, eat into, eat out, eat up, engorge, engulf, erode, etch, exhaust, expend, fall to, fare,

Etymology
etan:, from, from. Cognate with Scots aet:, Dutch eten:, German essen:, and Swedish äta:, and (from IE) with Ancient Greek ἔδω:, Latin edo:, Russian есть:, and Lithuanian esti:.

Synonyms

 * consume, swallow; see also Thesaurus:eat
 * bother, disturb, worry
 * dine, breakfast, chow down, have one's breakfast/lunch/dinner/supper/tea, lunch

Derived terms

 * crow eater
 * eater
 * eat crow
 * eatery, eaterie
 * eat humble pie
 * eat in
 * eating
 * eat into
 * eat like a bird


 * eat like a horse
 * eat like a pig
 * eat one's hat
 * eat out
 * eat pussy
 * eats
 * eat up
 * pie-eater
 * you are what you eat
 * what's eating you?
 * eat your words

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Ainu: エ ('e), イペ ('ipe)
 * Akkadian:
 * Albanian:
 * Amharic:
 * Arabic:
 * Aramaic:
 * Armenian:
 * Azeri: yemək
 * Basque: jan
 * Belarusian: есьці
 * Bengali: খাওয়া
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton: debriñ
 * Bulgarian:, храня се
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: ,
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Crimean Tatar:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:, sníst
 * Danish: spise, æde (used for animals and ill-mannered people)
 * Dutch:, (used for animals; vulgar when applied to people),
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Filipino:, ,
 * Finnish: syödä, skruudata
 * French:, bouffer (slang)
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ჭამა
 * German: essen, fressen (used for animals only)
 * Greek: τρώγω (tróɣo), τρώω (tróo), εσθίω (esthío)
 * Greenlandic: nerivoq
 * Gujarati: ખાવું
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hebrew: אכל (ekhól)
 * Hiligaynon: ,
 * Hindi:
 * Hittite:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:, ,
 * Ido: manjar
 * Indonesian: makan, memakan, melahap (eating greedily), mamam (babytalk)
 * Javanese: dhahar (polite), mangan (casual)
 * Sundanese: tuang (polite, to oneself), neda (polite, to others), emam (babytalk), dahar (casual), lebok or nyatu (animal), lolodok (fowl), jajablog (demon)
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, , ,  ,
 * Kazakh:
 * Khasi:
 * Khmer: (ñum, colloquial),  (pisā, polite),  (sī, vulgar)
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Kurmancî: xwarin
 * Soranî: (xwardin)


 * Lao: ,
 * Latin:, ,
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:, (used for animals and ill-mannered people)
 * Lojban:
 * Luxembourgish: iessen, buffen (slang), friessen (vulgar)
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam: കഴിയ്ക്കുക (kazhikkuka), തിന്നുക (thinnuka), ഉണ്ണുക (uNNuka)
 * Maltese:
 * Manx: ee
 * Mongolian: идэх
 * Nahuatl:
 * Nepali:
 * Norwegian Bokmål: ,
 * Norwegian Nynorsk: eta/ete
 * Occitan: manjar
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Glagolitic:
 * Old English:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਖਾ (khā)
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: (people),  (animals)
 * Russian:, поесть ;  , покушать
 * Sanskrit:
 * Scottish Gaelic: ith
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman:
 * Shan: (kĭn)
 * Sicilian: manciàri
 * Sinhalese: කනවා
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Sotho:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:, ,
 * Tai Dam:
 * Tajik:
 * Telugu: తిను, భుజించు
 * Thai: ,
 * Turkish:
 * Ugaritic:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu:
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:
 * West Frisian:
 * !Xóõ: ʻâã
 * Yucatec Maya:
 * Zazaki:


 * Danish: plage, fortære
 * Dutch:, opvreten
 * Finnish: mättää
 * French:
 * Greek: τρώω (tróo), σκοτίζω (skotízo)


 * Macedonian:
 * Romanian: îngrijora, roade (figurativ)
 * Sotho: jewa
 * Swedish: gnaga
 * Tagalog: nilamon


 * American Sign Language:
 * Armenian:
 * Azeri: yemək
 * Bosnian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Croatian:
 * Danish:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: γευματίζω (yevmatízo), έδω (éðo) (obsolete)
 * Hebrew: סעד
 * Hiligaynon:
 * Indonesian: menyantap, bersantap


 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 食事をする (　しょくじをする, shokuji o suru)
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: نان خواردن
 * Luxembourgish: iessen
 * Macedonian:
 * Portuguese: comer
 * Romanian: a lua o masă, a lua masa
 * Romansch: magliar
 * Russian: есть (est’), кушать (kúšat’)
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: јести
 * Roman: jesti
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: భుజించు
 * : mangiar

Anagrams

 * a.e.t., ate, ETA, eta, TEA, tea

Pronoun

 * 1) something, anything

Antonyms

 * neat