to eat
- verb
- /it/
- Just going up to the drugstore to get something to eat.
- eat food
- eat meat
- eat lunch
It's time to go home and eat and edit.
- It's time to go home and eat and edit.
- But but like, I didn't eat for about a week.
- And, you know, cheap place to eat, easy to park too.
- It's like, yeah, you got to eat so.
- And I would say, OK, eat, just eat.
- And the doctor says just don't eat for a few days.
- We are going to eat our tuna balls.
- Eat your protein next and then eat your carbs last.
- I wish I could eat them all day.
- And This is why when people eat it, they feel so good.
- But I'll tell you this, I'm eating it, OK?
- I know people that only eat pasta with butter.
- And and exercise and eat well, don't drink.
- Oh my God, I'm just going to eat all of this later.
Examples
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The next step is to eat whole, real foods.
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Now we are going to eat a smash burger.
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You are learning to walk, eat, run and talk.
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You guys always eat in the kitchen anyway.
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We might as well just eat, right?
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You can eat with her.
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We are going to eat our tuna balls.
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The materials centered around seven healthy messages: eat more fruits and vegetables, drink more.
Academic text (2013) -
You know, mister, I don't think you get enough to eat.
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She loves to eat fruits and vegetables every day for better health.
Synonyms
To eat or drink as part of a meal
To eat food, especially for animals
To make food or drink move from the mouth into the stomach
To eat or drink something
To eat small amounts and not finish a meal
To eat the main meal of the day, often with other people
To eat something or get strength and ideas from it
To eat or drink something so it goes into your body
To eat small, gentle bites slowly or a little at a time
To eat a small piece of food or reduce something a little
To bite or chew food loudly with big jaw movements
To eat food quickly and eagerly
To eat something quickly and eagerly
Eat a small amount of food as a quick snack
To eat food quickly and noisily without chewing properly
To eat something while chewing loudly and enjoying it
To eat food quickly because you are very hungry
To eat or drink with other people at a meal
To eat a very large amount of food greedily
Eat or drink something
Completely swallow something like land or light
Eat small amounts of food during the day instead of a full meal
To eat a lot of food eagerly
To chew food by biting and grinding it with the teeth
To eat a lot of food very quickly
To eat small amounts of different foods instead of a full meal
To eat something quickly and enjoy it
To eat too much food in a greedy way
Antonyms
Idioms
- Offensive
Tell someone in a rude way to go away or warn they will be badly embarrassed
- Offensive
Avoid mixing your personal life with your work life because it causes problems
- Informal
To feel very jealous or sad because someone else has what you want
- Jargon
Use a company's own products to show they work and learn from them
- Informal
To beat someone in business by taking their customers and sales
- Informal
To finish a very large task by doing small easy steps
- NSFW
To say as a joke that you will kill yourself because you feel very frustrated
- Informal
To say you are very sure something will not happen and would do something silly if it did
- Offensive
To say you want to kill yourself to show you feel very desperate, often offensive
- Informal
To eat so much at someone's home that they have almost no food left
- Informal
To speak or sing into a microphone with strong confidence and energy to make the audience pay attention
- Informal
A chant people use to protest the rich and call for sharing wealth, often in a joking way
- Offensive
A joking phrase that shows old ideas about how men should act
Phrasal Verbs
- Informal
To damage something slowly over time, for example a building or a person's confidence
Slowly damages metal, rock and someone's confidence by chemicals or steady pressure
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Etymology
Eat comes from an old English and old German word that meant 'take food'. It is like German essen, and that original idea of putting food in your mouth and swallowing is why eat means to have a meal today.