Deeper Dive: eat
QuotesLyricsYou don’t need a silver spoon to eat good food. Paul Prudhomme
The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly and lie about your age. Lucille Ball
Let them eat cake. Marie Antoinette
CollocationsIt wasn't raining, we were raving
And I don't know whether he was really saying it
But all he kept saying was
eat, sleep, rave, repeat
eat, sleep,
Eat sleep, rave repeat by Fatboy Slimeat someone alive
eat like a bird
eat like a horse
eat someone out of house and home
eat your heart out
eat your words
eat transitive verb [imperfect Ate (āt; 277), Obsolescent & Colloq. Eat (ĕt); past participle Eaten (ēt′’n), Obs. or Colloq. Eat (ĕt); present participle or verbal noun Eating.] [OE. eten, AS. etan; akin to OS. etan, OFries. eta, D. eten, OHG. ezzan, G. essen, Icel. eta, Sw. äta, Dan. æde, Goth. itan, Ir. & Gael. ith, W. ysu, L. edere, Gr. ἔδειν, Skr. ad. √6. Cf. Etch, Fret to rub, Edible.]
1. To chew and swallow as food; to devour; – said especially of food not liquid; as, to eat bread.“To eat grass as oxen.” Dan. iv. 25.2. To corrode, as metal, by rust; to consume the flesh, as a cancer; to waste or wear away; to destroy gradually; to cause to disappear. To eat humble pie
They . . . ate the sacrifices of the dead. Ps. cvi. 28.
The lean . . . did eat up the first seven fat kine. Gen. xli. 20.
The lion had not eaten the carcass. 1 Kings xiii. 28.
With stories told of many a feat,
How fairy Mab the junkets eat. Milton.
The island princes overbold
Have eat our substance. Tennyson.
His wretched estate is eaten up with mortgages. Thackeray.See under Humble.To eat of (partitive use).“Eat of the bread that can not waste.” Keble.To eat one’s wordsto retract what one has said. (See the Citation under Blurt.)To eat outto consume completely.To eat the wind out of a vessel (Naut.)
“Eat out the heart and comfort of it.” Tillotson.to gain slowly to windward of her.Eat intransitive verb
Syn. – To consume; devour; gnaw; corrode.
1. To take food; to feed; especially, to take solid, in distinction from liquid, food; to board.He did eat continually at the king's table. 2 Sam. ix. 13.2. To taste or relish; as, it eats like tender beef.
3. To make one's way slowly.
To eat
To eat in
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To eat intoto make way by corrosion; to gnaw; to consume.To eat to windward (Naut.)
“A sword laid by, which eats into itself.” Byron.to keep the course when closehauled with but little steering; – said of a vessel.
-- Webster's unabridged 1913
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