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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Synonyms:

Chew and swallow, ingest, Feed, take food / Corrode, erode, consume, wear away, gnaw into, Act corrosively / Taste, relish

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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
Eat Me — Eat Me, Drink Me Eat Me, Drink Me студийный альбом Marilyn Manson Дата выпуска … Википедия
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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