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English Dictionary: eat	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
eat v take in solid food; "She was eating a banana"; "What did you eat for dinner last night?" 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" take in food; used of animals only; "This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat"; "What do whales eat?" Synonym(s): feed, eat worry or cause anxiety in a persistent way; "What's eating you?" Synonym(s): eat, eat on 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" Synonym(s): consume, eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out 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" Synonym(s): corrode, eat, rust
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Eat \Eat\ ([emac]t), v. t. [imp. {Ate} ([amac]t; 277), Obsolescent & Colloq. {Eat} ([ecr]t); p. p. {Eaten} ([emac]t"'n), Obs. or Colloq. {Eat} ([ecr]t); p. pr. & vb. n. {Eating}.] [OE. eten, AS. etan; akin to OS. etan, OFries. eta, D. eten, OHG. ezzan, G. essen, Icel. eta, Sw. [84]ta, Dan. [91]de, Goth. itan, Ir. & Gael. ith, W. ysu, L. edere, Gr. 'e`dein, Skr. ad. [root]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. [bd]To eat grass as oxen.[b8] --Dan. iv. 25. 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. 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}. See under {Humble}. {To eat of} (partitive use). [bd]Eat of the bread that can not waste.[b8] --Keble. {To eat one's words}, to retract what one has said. (See the Citation under {Blurt}.) {To eat out}, to consume completely. [bd]Eat out the heart and comfort of it.[b8] --Tillotson. {To eat the wind out of a vessel} (Naut.), to gain slowly to windward of her. Syn: To consume; devour; gnaw; corrode.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Eat \Eat\, v. i. 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} [or] {into}, to make way by corrosion; to gnaw; to consume. [bd]A sword laid by, which eats into itself.[b8] --Byron. {To eat to windward} (Naut.), to keep the course when closehauled with but little steering; -- said of a vessel.