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SOWPODS (Collins Scrabble Words)
OTCWL2014 (NASPA Word List 2014)
TWL06 (NASPA List 2006)
SOWPODS (Collins Scrabble Words)
OTCWL2014 (NASPA Word List 2014)
TWL06 (NASPA List 2006)
"Eat" Definition
noun
Something to eat.
Source: Merriam-Webster
Light food or snacks:.
Source: Oxford Dictionary
idiom
Eat (someone) alive Slang To overwhelm or defeat thoroughly: an inexperienced manager who was eaten alive in a competitive corporate environment.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
Eat crow To be forced to accept a humiliating defeat.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
phrasal-verb
Eat up Slang To receive or enjoy enthusiastically or avidly: She really eats up the publicity.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
verb-transitive
Slang To absorb the cost or expense of: "You can eat your loss and switch the remaining money to other investment portfolios” ( Marlys Harris).
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
To destroy, ravage, or use up by or as if by ingesting: "Covering news in the field eats money” ( George F. Will).
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
To erode or corrode: waves that ate away the beach; an acid that eats the surface of a machine part.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
To produce by or as if by eating: Moths ate holes in our sweaters.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
To take in and absorb as food: a plant that eats insects; a cell that eats bacteria.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
verb-intransitive
To cause persistent annoyance or distress: "How long will it be before the frustration eats at you?” ( Howard Kaplan).
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
To consume food.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
To exercise a consuming or eroding effect: a drill that ate away at the rock; exorbitant expenses that were eating into profits.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
To have or take a meal.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
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