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UK
/ˈiːt/
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[ US /ˈit/ ]
[ US /ˈit/ ]
VERB
-
eat a meal; take a meal
I didn't eat yet, so I gladly accept your invitation
We did not eat until 10 P.M. because there were so many phone calls -
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 -
take in food; used of animals only
What do whales eat?
This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat -
take in solid food
She was eating a banana
What did you eat for dinner last night? -
worry or cause anxiety in a persistent way
What's eating you? -
use up (resources or materials)
They run through 20 bottles of wine a week
this car consumes a lot of gas
We exhausted our savings
How To Use eat In A Sentence
- Richardson, are proprietors of shows, and the berouged, bedraggled creatures who exhibit on the platform outside for their living. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843
- Smith, who is also a director of Norwich City Football Club, said her CBE was a "very, very great honour". BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
- If we have spent several class periods introducing conventions of reasoned evidence in argumentative writing, we usually look for such features in student papers.
- Rows of brick garden apartments all backed onto a massive common garden: a shared backyard for children to play, dogs to gambol, and families to eat picnics together. Day of Honey
- The new taxon is named Gamerabaena, and the authors note, under etymology, "'Gamera refers to the fictional, firebreathing turtle from the 1965 movie Gamera, in allusion to his fire-breathing capabilities and the Hell Creek Formation ... "Look at everything around us. Look at everything we've done."
- I have no great picture of her to link because I am out of town in San Francisco and all the pictures I have are the naked librarian Playboy centerfolds I got in email a few days back.
- I just know that one beer bash was fine, two was tolerable, and the third was just a way to eat up time on Memorial Day.
- The question, which has been eating at Matthews for several years, is gnawing on him a couple of hours later as he decompresses at a party at Spago in Beverly Hills.
- The blame for this month's wet weather lies with the jet stream winds a few miles high. Times, Sunday Times
- A great deal of the nudge-nudge wink-wink routine by the young upwardly mobile male executives was the usual response to her presence.
