eat
1. take in solid food (Freq. 61)
- She was eating a banana
- What did you eat for dinner last night?
• Derivationally related forms:
eater, eating
• Hypernyms:
consume, ingest, take in, take, have
• Hyponyms:
wash down, gluttonize, gluttonise, fress, wolf,
wolf down, slurp, fare, pitch in, dig in, pick at,
peck at, peck, pick up, gobble, bolt, garbage down,
gobble up, shovel in, bolt down, nibble, pick, piece,
ruminate, dunk, dip, devour, guttle, raven,
pig, eat up, finish, polish off, down, consume,
go through, fill up, fill
• Verb Group:
feed
• Entailment:
chew, masticate, manducate, jaw, swallow, get down
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- They eat more bread
2. eat a meal;
take a meal (Freq. 13)
- 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
• See Also:
eat in, eat out, eat up
• Derivationally related forms:
eater, eating
• Hypernyms:
consume, ingest, take in, take, have
• Hyponyms:
take out, take away, victual, eat in, dine in,
eat out, dine out, dine, picnic, break bread, nosh,
snack, mess, lunch, brunch, breakfast, feast,
banquet, junket, gorge, ingurgitate, overindulge, glut,
englut, stuff, engorge, overgorge, overeat, gormandize,
gormandise, gourmandize, binge, pig out, satiate, scarf out
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Sam and Sue eat
3. take in food;
used of animals only (Freq. 4)
- This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat
- What do whales eat?
• Syn:
feed
• Derivationally related forms:
eating, feed (for: feed), feeder (for: feed), feeding (for: feed)
• Hypernyms:
consume, ingest, take in, take, have
• Hyponyms:
forage, raven, suckle, crop, browse,
graze, range, pasture
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Something is ----ing PP
- The animals eat
4. worry or cause anxiety in a persistent way
- What's eating you?
• Syn:
eat on
• Hypernyms:
worry, vex
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s somebody
- The bad news will eat him
5. 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, rust
• Derivationally related forms:
rust (for: rust), corrosive (for: corrode), corrosion (for: corrode), corroding (for: corrode)
• Hypernyms:
damage
• Verb Group:
corrode, rust
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s something
6. 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, deplete, exhaust,
run through, wipe out
• Derivationally related forms:
exhaustion (for: exhaust), depletion (for: deplete), consumptive (for: consume), consumable (for: consume)
• Hypernyms:
spend, expend, drop
• Hyponyms:
run out, drain, indulge, luxuriate, burn off,
burn, burn up, spend, run down, exhaust, play out,
sap, tire
• Verb Group:
take, occupy, use up
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
- Somebody ----s PP
- They eat more bread
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