Eat

/iːt/ · verb

Meaning

To ingest; to be ingested..

Definitions by Sense

1. To ingest; to be ingested.
2. To use up.
3. (transitive, informal) To cause (someone) to worry.
4. (transitive, business) To take the loss in a transaction.
5. (transitive, slang) To be injured or killed by (something such as a firearm or its projectile), especially in the mouth.
6. (ambitransitive) To corrode or erode.
7. (transitive, slang) To perform oral sex (on a person or body part).
8. (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?

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.

The server made an error when taking the order. The bartender prepared two scorpion bowls. When the error was realized the bartender was faced with having to "eat" the extra scorpion bowl […]

When they were doing it with the valuation professionals, they were billing the client, but the valuation professional in a lot of those early cases had to eat the cost of showing the auditor how the auditors' test model was incorrect.

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

Friends are only necessary in the ghastly country, where you have to have them, along with rubber boots and a barometer and secateurs, to put off bucolic idiocy, a wet brain, or eating the 12-bore.

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

Mike had been to other calls where someone had eaten a gun. He knew to expect teeth embedded in the ceiling and brains dripping off it.

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