Eat

Quick meaning: Eat is a verb meaning To ingest; to be ingested.

Meaning

To ingest; to be ingested.

More Meanings

1. To use up.
2. (transitive, informal) To cause (someone) to worry.
3. (transitive, business) To take the loss in a transaction.
4. (transitive, slang) To be injured or killed by (something such as a firearm or its projectile), especially in the mouth.
5. (ambitransitive) To corrode or erode.
6. (transitive, slang) To perform oral sex (on a person or body part).
7. (stative, slang) To do or perform well and stunningly; to consume a challenge successfully and stylishly; to rule, to slay.

Example Sentences

What's eating you?

And, of course, there was Brian Rusk, who had eaten a bullet at the ripe old age of eleven.

I risk my whole future, the hatred of the cops and Eddie Mars' gang. I dodge bullets and eat saps.

I have to have him in court tomorrow, if he doesn't show up, I forfeit the bond and I have to eat the $300,000.

Word Forms

• eats
• eating
• eaten
• eatest
• eateth

Synonyms for eat

Depending on context, synonyms include have, fret, bother, disturb, worry, eat out.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include consume, feed, corrode, deplete, exhaust, rust.

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