eat
verbEtymology
From Middle English eten, from Old English etan (“to eat”), from Proto-West Germanic *etan, from Proto-Germanic *etaną (“to eat”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁édti, from *h₁ed- (“to eat”). Cognates Cognate with Scots ait (“to eat”), Yola ayth, eight (“to eat”), North Frisian iidj, iit, ää'e, ääre, ääse (“to eat”), Saterland Frisian iete, íete (“to eat”), West Frisian ite (“to eat”), Alemannic German asse, assu, essen, ässe, ässä (“to eat”), Bavarian eisn, essn, èssn (“to eat”), Cimbrian èssan, èzzan (“to eat”), Dutch and Low German eten (“to eat”), German essen (“to eat”), Luxembourgish iessen (“to eat”), Mòcheno èssn (“to eat”), Vilamovian aosa (“to eat”), Yiddish עסן (esn, “to eat”), Danish æde (“to eat”), Elfdalian jätå (“to eat”), Faroese eta (“to eat”), Icelandic eta, éta (“to eat”), Norwegian Bokmål ete (“to eat”), Norwegian Nynorsk eta, ete, åtå (“to eat”), Swedish äta (“to eat”), Gothic 𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (itan, “to eat”).
Definitions
To ingest
To ingest; to be ingested.
- He's eating an apple. / Don't disturb me now; can't you see that I'm eating?
- But meate commendeth vs not to God: for neither if we eate, are we the better: neither if wee eate not, are we the woꝛſe.
- At twilight in the summer there is never anybody to fear—man, woman, or cat—in the chambers and at that hour the mice come out. They do not eat parchment or foolscap orred tape, but they eat the luncheon crumbs.
To use up.
- This project is eating up all the money.
- His wretched estate is eaten up with mortgages.
To cause (someone) to worry.
- What's eating you?
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To take the loss in a transaction.
- I have to have him in court tomorrow, if he doesn't show up, I forfeit the bond and I have to eat the $300,000.
- The server made an error when taking the order. The bartender prepared two scorpion bowls. When the error was realized the bartender was faced with having to "eat" the extra scorpion bowl […]
- When they were doing it with the valuation professionals, they were billing the client, but the valuation professional in a lot of those early cases had to eat the cost of showing the auditor how the auditors' test model was incorrect.
To be injured or killed by (something such as a firearm or its projectile), especially in…
To be injured or killed by (something such as a firearm or its projectile), especially in the mouth.
- I risk my whole future, the hatred of the cops and Eddie Mars' gang. I dodge bullets and eat saps.
- And, of course, there was Brian Rusk, who had eaten a bullet at the ripe old age of eleven.
- Friends are only necessary in the ghastly country, where you have to have them, along with rubber boots and a barometer and secateurs, to put off bucolic idiocy, a wet brain, or eating the 12-bore.
To corrode or erode.
- The acid rain ate away the statue. The strong acid eats through the metal.
To perform oral sex (on a person or body part).
- Eat me!
- I ate his ass.
- Yeah, eat that dick / eat that pussy.
To do or perform well and stunningly
To do or perform well and stunningly; to consume a challenge successfully and stylishly; to rule, to slay.
- You ate that performance!
- This song eats!
To annex.
Something to be eaten
Something to be eaten; a meal; a food item.
- Eating a Picnic creates a flurry of wafer pieces, flying peanuts and chocolate crumbs. […] As well as being messy, Picnic happens to be a big eat – something of a consumption challenge in fact.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at eat. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at eat. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at eat
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA