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SOWPODS (Collins Scrabble Words)
OTCWL2014 (NASPA Word List 2014)
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SOWPODS (Collins Scrabble Words)
OTCWL2014 (NASPA Word List 2014)
TWL06 (NASPA List 2006)
"Eat" Definition
noun
Something to eat.
Source: Merriam-Webster
Light food or snacks:.
Source: Oxford Dictionary
idiom
Eat (someone) alive Slang To overwhelm or defeat thoroughly: an inexperienced manager who was eaten alive in a competitive corporate environment.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
Eat crow To be forced to accept a humiliating defeat.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
phrasal-verb
Eat up Slang To receive or enjoy enthusiastically or avidly: She really eats up the publicity.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
verb-transitive
Slang To absorb the cost or expense of: "You can eat your loss and switch the remaining money to other investment portfolios” ( Marlys Harris).
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
To destroy, ravage, or use up by or as if by ingesting: "Covering news in the field eats money” ( George F. Will).
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
To erode or corrode: waves that ate away the beach; an acid that eats the surface of a machine part.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
To produce by or as if by eating: Moths ate holes in our sweaters.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
To take in and absorb as food: a plant that eats insects; a cell that eats bacteria.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
verb-intransitive
To cause persistent annoyance or distress: "How long will it be before the frustration eats at you?” ( Howard Kaplan).
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
To consume food.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
To exercise a consuming or eroding effect: a drill that ate away at the rock; exorbitant expenses that were eating into profits.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
To have or take a meal.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
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