eat

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: ēt, IPA: /iːt/
• (US) enPR: ēt, IPA: /it/

Verb

eat (third-person singular simple present eats, present participle eating, simple past ate or (dialectal) et or (obsolete) eat, past participle eaten or (dialectal) etten)

1. To ingest; to be ingested.
   1. (transitive, intransitive) To consume (something solid or semi-solid, usually food) by putting it into the mouth and swallowing it.
      • He's eating an apple. / Don't disturb me now; can't you see that I'm eating?
   2. (intransitive) To consume a meal.
      • What time do we eat this evening?
   3. (intransitive, ergative) To be eaten.
      • It's a soup that eats like a meal.
   4. (copulative, intransitive) To have a particular quality of diet; to be well-fed or underfed (typically as "eat healthy" or "eat good").
2. To use up.
   1. (transitive, often with up) To destroy, consume, or use up.
      • This project is eating up all the money.
   2. (transitive, programming, informal) To consume (an exception, an event, etc.) so that other parts of the program do not receive it.
   3. (transitive, informal, of a device) To damage, destroy, or fail to eject a removable part or an inserted object.
      • The VHS recorder just ate the tape and won't spit it out.
      • John is late for the meeting because the photocopier ate his report.
   4. (transitive, informal, of a vending machine or similar device) To consume money (or other instruments of value, such as a token) deposited or inserted by a user, while failing to either provide the intended product or service or return the payment.
      • The video game in the corner just ate my quarter.
3. (transitive, informal) To cause (someone) to worry.
   • What's eating you?
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. (transitive, intransitive) To corrode or erode.
   • The acid rain ate away the statue.  The strong acid eats through the metal.
7. (transitive, slang) To perform oral sex (on a person or body part).
   • Eat me!
   • I ate his ass.
   • Yeah, eat that dick / eat that pussy.
8. (stative, slang) To be very good; to rule; to rock.
   • You ate that performance!

Noun

eat (plural eats)

1. (colloquial) Something to be eaten; a meal; a food item.

Anagrams

• -ate, AET, Até, Atë, ETA, TEA, Tea, a.e.t., aet, ate, eta, tea, æt.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA: /ˈe.at/, [ˈeät̪]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈe.at/, [ˈɛːät̪]

Verb

eat

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of eō

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA: /ˈea̯h(t)/

Verb

eat

1. first-person plural present of ii

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɪə̯t/

Pronoun

eat

1. something, anything
   • Antonym: neat