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eat - take in solid food; "She was eating a banana"; "What did you eat for dinner last night?" |
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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"
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chew,
jaw,
manducate,
masticate chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth; "He jawed his bubble gum"; "Chew your food and don't swallow it!"; "The cows were masticating the grass"
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get down,
swallow take the first step or steps in carrying out an action; "We began working at dawn"; "Who will start?"; "Get working as soon as the sun rises!"; "The first tourists began to arrive in Cambodia"; "He began early in the day"; "Let's get down to work now"
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consume,
have,
ingest,
take,
take in engage fully; "The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy"
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wash down flow freely; "The body washed down the river"
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fress,
gluttonise,
gluttonize eat a lot and without restraint
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wolf,
wolf down eat hastily; "The teenager wolfed down the pizza"
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slurp eat noisily; "He slurped his soup"
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fare eat well
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dig in,
pitch in eat heartily; "The food was placed on the table and the children pitched in"
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peck,
peck at,
pick at eat by pecking at, like a bird
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peck,
pick up eat by pecking at, like a bird
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bolt,
gobble make or roll into bolts; "bolt fabric"
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bolt down,
garbage down,
gobble up,
shovel in eat a large amount of food quickly; "The children gobbled down most of the birthday cake"
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nibble,
pick,
piece eat intermittently; take small bites of; "He pieced at the sandwich all morning"; "She never eats a full meal--she just nibbles"
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ruminate chew the cuds; "cows ruminate"
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dip,
dunk stain an object by immersing it in a liquid
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devour,
guttle,
pig,
raven eat greedily; "he devoured three sandwiches"
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eat up,
finish,
polish off finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table; "She polished off the remaining potatoes"
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consume,
devour,
down,
go through engage fully; "The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy"
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fill,
fill up plug with a substance; "fill a cavity"
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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" |
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consume,
have,
ingest,
take,
take in engage fully; "The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy"
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dine in,
eat in eat at home
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dine out,
eat out eat at a restaurant or at somebody else's home
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eat up,
finish,
polish off finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table; "She polished off the remaining potatoes"
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take away,
take out take out or remove; "take out the chicken after adding the vegetables"
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victual take in nourishment
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dine in,
eat in eat at home
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dine out,
eat out eat at a restaurant or at somebody else's home
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dine give dinner to; host for dinner; "I'm wining and dining my friends"
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picnic eat alfresco, in the open air; "We picnicked near the lake on this gorgeous Sunday"
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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"
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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"
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break bread have a meal, usually with company; "The early Christian disciples broke bread together"
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nosh,
snack eat a snack; eat lightly; "She never loses weight because she snacks between meals"
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mess make a mess of or create disorder in; "He messed up his room"
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lunch take the midday meal; "At what time are you lunching?"
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brunch eat a meal in the late morning; "We brunch in Sundays"
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breakfast eat an early morning meal; "We breakfast at seven"
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banquet,
feast,
junket partake in a feast or banquet
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binge,
englut,
engorge,
glut,
gorge,
gormandise,
gormandize,
gourmandize,
ingurgitate,
overeat,
overgorge,
overindulge,
pig out,
satiate,
scarf out,
stuff overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself; "She stuffed herself at the dinner"; "The kids binged on ice cream"
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eat - worry or cause anxiety in a persistent way; "What's eating you?" |
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vex,
worry subject to prolonged examination, discussion, or deliberation; "vex the subject of the death penalty"
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