eat

eat
verb
ADVERB
▪ well
▪

We ate very well most of the time (= had lots of nice food).

▪ a lot, enough, too much
▪

He's not eating enough.

▪ healthfully (AmE), healthily, properly, sensibly
▪

I'm trying to eat more healthily.

▪

She doesn't eat sensibly (= doesn't eat food that is good for her).

▪ poorly
▪ hungrily, ravenously
▪ heartily
▪ sparingly
▪

Barton did not feel very hungry and ate sparingly.

▪ barely, hardly
▪

He'd barely eaten any breakfast.

▪ quickly, slowly
▪ in silence, quietly, silently
▪ happily
▪

Everyone happily ate the huge meal.

▪ alone, together
VERB + EAT
▪ find sth to, get (yourself) sth to, grab sth to, have sth to
▪

Do you have anything to eat?

▪ have enough to
▪ try and, try to
▪

Try and eat something. It will do you good.

PHRASES
▪ a bite to eat (= some food)
▪

Do you want to grab a bite to eat?

▪ eat and drink
▪

Go and get yourself something to eat and drink.

▪ eat like a horse (= eat a lot)
▪

She's very thin but she eats like a horse!

▪ eat sb out of house and home
▪

He's eating us out of house and home (= eating a lot of our food).

▪ go eat (esp. AmE)
▪

Let's go eat.

▪ good enough to eat (figurative)
▪

You look good enough to eat!

▪ go out to eat
▪

We went out to eat for a Chinese New Year celebration.

▪ a place to eat (= a cafe or restaurant)
▪

Are you looking for a place to eat?

▪ sit down to eat
▪

We eventually sat down to eat at 8.30 p.m.

Eat is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑lion
Eat is used with these nouns as the object: ↑apple, ↑avocado, ↑banana, ↑beef, ↑berry, ↑biscuit, ↑bowl, ↑bun, ↑cake, ↑calorie, ↑candy, ↑carbohydrate, ↑carrot, ↑cereal, ↑chicken, ↑chip, ↑chop, ↑coconut, ↑corn, ↑crisp, ↑cuisine, ↑dessert, ↑diet, ↑dish, ↑fat, ↑feast, ↑fish, ↑flesh, ↑food, ↑fruit, ↑grape, ↑grass, ↑ham, ↑helping, ↑ice cream, ↑jelly, ↑lunch, ↑meat, ↑morsel, ↑mouthful, ↑orange, ↑pasta, ↑pea, ↑portion, ↑potato, ↑produce, ↑ration, ↑salad, ↑salmon, ↑sandwich, ↑sausage, ↑seafood, ↑slice, ↑snack, ↑soup, ↑starter, ↑steak, ↑sweet, ↑thing, ↑tomato, ↑vegetables, ↑wheat, ↑word

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  • eat — W1S1 [i:t] v past tense ate [et, eıt US eıt] past participle eaten [ˈi:tn] ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(food)¦ 2¦(meal)¦ 3 eat your words 4 eat your heart out 5 eat somebody alive/eat somebody for breakfast 6¦(use)¦ 7 eat humble pie …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • eat — [ it ] (past tense ate [ eıt ] ; past participle eat|en [ itn ] ) verb intransitive or transitive *** to put food into your mouth and swallow it: We sat on the grass and ate our sandwiches. Don t talk while you re eating. I ve eaten too much.… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • Eat — ([=e]t), v. t. [imp. {Ate} ([=a]t; 277), Obsolescent & Colloq. {Eat} ([e^]t); p. p. {Eaten} ([=e]t n), Obs. or Colloq. {Eat} ([e^]t); p. pr. & vb. n. {Eating}.] [OE. eten, AS. etan; akin to OS. etan, OFries. eta, D. eten, OHG. ezzan, G. essen,… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Eat — ([=e]t), v. t. [imp. {Ate} ([=a]t; 277), Obsolescent & Colloq. {Eat} ([e^]t); p. p. {Eaten} ([=e]t n), Obs. or Colloq. {Eat} ([e^]t); p. pr. & vb. n. {Eating}.] [OE. eten, AS. etan; akin to OS. etan, OFries. eta, D. eten, OHG. ezzan, G. essen,… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Eat — ([=e]t), v. t. [imp. {Ate} ([=a]t; 277), Obsolescent & Colloq. {Eat} ([e^]t); p. p. {Eaten} ([=e]t n), Obs. or Colloq. {Eat} ([e^]t); p. pr. & vb. n. {Eating}.] [OE. eten, AS. etan; akin to OS. etan, OFries. eta, D. eten, OHG. ezzan, G. essen,… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • eat — ► VERB (past ate; past part. eaten) 1) put (food) into the mouth and chew and swallow it. 2) (eat out or in) have a meal in a restaurant (or at home). 3) (eat something away or eat away at/into) gradually erode or des …   English terms dictionary

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  • Eat — Eat, v. i. 1. To take food; to feed; especially, to take solid, in distinction from liquid, food; to board. [1913 Webster] He did eat continually at the king s table. 2 Sam. ix. 13. [1913 Webster] 2. To taste or relish; as, it eats like tender… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Eat Me — Eat Me, Drink Me Saltar a navegación, búsqueda Eat Me, Drink Me Álbum de estudio de Marilyn Manson Publicación …   Wikipedia Español

  • eat — (v.) O.E. etan (class V strong verb; past tense æt, pp. eten) to eat, devour, consume, from P.Gmc. *etanan (Cf. O.Fris. ita, O.S. etan, M.Du. eten, Du. eten, O.H.G. ezzan, Ger. essen, O.N. eta, Goth. itan), from PIE root …   Etymology dictionary

  • eat — [ēt] vt. ate [āt; ] Brit usually [ et] eaten [ēt′ n] eating [ME eten < OE etan, akin to Ger essen < IE base * ed , to eat > L edere, Gr edmenai] 1. to put (food) in the mouth, chew if necessary, and swallow 2. to use up, devour, destroy …   English World dictionary

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