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Scrabble Points: | Base[3] | DW[6] | TW[9]
WWF Points: | Base[3] | DW[6] | TW[9]

1. eat crow To be forced to accept a humiliating defeat.

2. eat (someone) alive Slang To overwhelm or defeat thoroughly: an inexperienced manager who was eaten alive in a competitive corporate environment.

1. eat up Slang To receive or enjoy enthusiastically or avidly: She really eats up the publicity.

1. To consume food.

2. To have or take a meal.

3. To exercise a consuming or eroding effect: a drill that ate away at the rock; exorbitant expenses that were eating into profits.

4. To cause persistent annoyance or distress: "How long will it be before the frustration eats at you?” ( Howard Kaplan).

1. To take into the body by the mouth for digestion or absorption.

2. To take in and absorb as food: a plant that eats insects; a cell that eats bacteria.

3. To destroy, ravage, or use up by or as if by ingesting: "Covering news in the field eats money” ( George F. Will).

4. To erode or corrode: waves that ate away the beach; an acid that eats the surface of a machine part.

5. To produce by or as if by eating: Moths ate holes in our sweaters.

6. Slang To absorb the cost or expense of: "You can eat your loss and switch the remaining money to other investment portfolios” ( Marlys Harris).

7. Vulgar Slang To perform cunnilingus on. Often used with out.

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