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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Eat \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, Icel. eta, Sw. [aum]ta, Dan. [ae]de, Goth. itan, Ir. & Gael. ith, W. ysu, L. edere, Gr. 'e`dein, Skr. ad. [root]6. Cf. {Etch}, {Fret} to rub, {Edible}.] 1. To chew and swallow as food; to devour; -- said especially of food not liquid; as, to eat bread. "To eat grass as oxen." --Dan. iv. 25. [1913 Webster] They . . . ate the sacrifices of the dead. --Ps. cvi. 28. [1913 Webster] The lean . . . did eat up the first seven fat kine. --Gen. xli. 20. [1913 Webster] The lion had not eaten the carcass. --1 Kings xiii. 28. [1913 Webster] With stories told of many a feat, How fairy Mab the junkets eat. --Milton. [1913 Webster] The island princes overbold Have eat our substance. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster] His wretched estate is eaten up with mortgages. --Thackeray. [1913 Webster] 2. To corrode, as metal, by rust; to consume the flesh, as a cancer; to waste or wear away; to destroy gradually; to cause to disappear. [1913 Webster] {To eat humble pie}. See under {Humble}. {To eat of} (partitive use). "Eat of the bread that can not waste." --Keble. {To eat one's words}, to retract what one has said. (See the Citation under {Blurt}.) {To eat out}, to consume completely. "Eat out the heart and comfort of it." --Tillotson. {To eat the wind out of a vessel} (Naut.), to gain slowly to windward of her. Syn: To consume; devour; gnaw; corrode. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: 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 beef. [1913 Webster] 3. To make one's way slowly. [1913 Webster] {To eat}, {To eat in} or {To eat into}, to make way by corrosion; to gnaw; to consume. "A sword laid by, which eats into itself." --Byron. {To eat to windward} (Naut.), to keep the course when closehauled with but little steering; -- said of a vessel. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: eat v 1: take in solid food; "She was eating a banana"; "What did you eat for dinner last night?" 2: eat a meal; take a meal; "We did not eat until 10 P.M. because there were so many phone calls"; "I didn't eat yet, so I gladly accept your invitation" 3: take in food; used of animals only; "This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat"; "What do whales eat?" [syn: {feed}, {eat}] 4: worry or cause anxiety in a persistent way; "What's eating you?" [syn: {eat}, {eat on}] 5: use up (resources or materials); "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week" [syn: {consume}, {eat up}, {use up}, {eat}, {deplete}, {exhaust}, {run through}, {wipe out}] 6: cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid; "The acid corroded the metal"; "The steady dripping of water rusted the metal stopper in the sink" [syn: {corrode}, {eat}, {rust}]