Meaning of eat | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To ingest; to be ingested.
   ambitransitive
2. To consume (something solid or semi-solid, usually food) by putting it into the mouth and swallowing it.
   ambitransitive
3. To be forced to accept a humiliating defeat.
4. To consume a meal.
   intransitive
5. To be eaten.
   ergative, intransitive
6. To retract something that one has said.
7. To have a particular quality of diet; to be well-fed or underfed (typically as "eat healthy" or "eat good").
   copulative, intransitive
8. To be manipulated or dominated by another.
9. To use up.
   often, transitive, with-up
10. To destroy, consume, or use up.
    often, transitive, with-up
11. To overwhelm or defeat thoroughly: an inexperienced manager who was eaten alive in a competitive corporate environment.
12. To consume (an exception, an event, etc.) so that other parts of the program do not receive it.
    informal, transitive
13. to (chew and) swallow; to take food. They are forbidden to eat meat; They ate up all the cakes; We must eat to live. eet, geëet, moet eet يَأْكُل ям comer jíst, sníst essen spise τρώωcomer sööma خوردن syödä manger לֶאֱכוֹל खाना jesti eszik makan borða mangiare 食べる (음식을) 먹다, 씹어 삼키다 valgyti ēst makan eten spise, fortære, etejeść خورل comer a mânca есть jesť jesti jesti äta กิน; ทาน yemek 喫，吃 їсти منہ میں ڈالنے ، چبانے اور کھانے کا عمل ăn 吃
14. fit to be eaten. The meal was scarcely eatable. eetbaar صالِح لِلأْكل годен за ядене comestível k jídlu; jedlý eßbar spiselig εδώδιμοςcomestible söödav قابل خوردن؛ خوراکی syömäkelpoinen mangeableאכיל खाद्य jestiv ehető layak dimakan ætur mangiabile, commestibile 食べられる 먹을 수 있는 valgomas ēdams boleh dimakan eetbaarspiseligjadalny خورا كى شيان، خواړه comestível bun de mâncat съедобный jedlý užiten jestiv ätlig สามารถทานได้ yenebilir 可食用的 їстівний کھانے کے لائق ăn được 可食用的
15. To damage, destroy, or fail to eject a removable part or an inserted object.
    informal, transitive
16. (in plural) food. Cover all eatables to keep mice away. eetbare أطْعِمَه، مأْكولات храни víveres potraviny Eßwaren (pl.) madvarer φαγώσιμα (πληθ.) comestibles, víveres toit مواد غذایی ruoka victuaillesאוכל भोजन jestvine ennivaló makanan matvæli vivande, viveri 食料品 식료품 maistas pārtika; ēdamais makanan eetwarenmatvarerżywność خورا كى شيان víveres mâncăruri съестное potraviny jestvine hrana matvaror อาหาร yiyecek 食物 їжа, харчі کھانا thức ăn 食物
    in plural
17. To consume money (or other instruments of value, such as a token) deposited or inserted by a user, while failing to either provide the intended product or service or return the payment.
    informal, transitive
18. to destroy or waste gradually. Acid eats into metal; The school fees have eaten into our savings. opeet, invreet يَأْكُل، يُذيب، يُحَطِّمُ разяждам gastar zažrat se; sáhnout hluboko zerfressen, zehren gøre indhug i; æde op κατατρώγω, καταστρέφω σταδιακά corroer, comer sööbima, ära sööma از بین بردن؛ خوردن kuluttaa attaquer, ronger לְכָלוֹת बरबाद करना progristi, nagrizanjem se uvući beleeszi magát menghancurkan tæra; minnka, ganga á corrodere ～に食い込む 조금씩 소비하다 įsiėsti (par skābi) ieēsties; notēr...
19. To cause (someone) to worry.
    informal, transitive
20. To take the loss in a transaction.
    transitive
21. to admit humbly that one was mistaken in saying something. I'll make him eat his words! jou woorde insluk يَرْجِعُ في كَلامِهِ принуден съм да си взема думите назад engolir as (suas) palavras odvolat seinen Fehler eingestehen tage ordene i sig igen παίρνω πίσω τα λόγια μου tragarse lo dicho oma sõnu sööma حرف خود را پس گرفتن syödä sanansa rétracter לְהוֹדוֹת בְּטָעוּת povući riječ visszaszívja amit mondott mengaku salah éta ofan í sig, taka orð sín aftur ritrattare, rimangiarsi ciò che si è d...
22. To be injured or killed by (something such as a firearm or its projectile), especially in the mouth.
    slang, transitive
23. vi. comer, sustentarse, ingerir alimentos; to ___ breakfast → desayunar, tomar el desayuno;
24. To corrode or erode.
    ambitransitive
25. To perform oral sex (on a person or body part).
    slang, transitive
26. To be very good; to rule, to slay.
    slang, stative
27. To annex.
    slang, transitive

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“But Richmond[…]appeared to lose himself in his own reflections. Some pickled crab, which he had not touched, had been removed with a damson pie; and his sister saw[…]that he had eaten no more than a spoonful of that either.”

“Shepard: Everyone on this station is chafing under Anoleis' extortion. You might end up a hero. Lorik Qui'in: My employers rely on the goodwill of the Executive Board to work here. Wrex: If these "executives" don't blame Anoleis for provoking this, they're fools. You should eat them.”

“What time do we eat this evening?”

“I eat in the kitchen.”

“It's a soup that eats like a meal.”

“I don't know any quarter in England where you get such undeniable mutton—mutton that eats like mutton, instead of the nasty watery, stringy, turnipy stuff, neither mutton nor lamb, that other countries are inundated with.”

“[D]ish him with thlitheth of orangeth, barberrieth, grapeth, goothberrieth, and butter; and you will find that he eaths deliciouthly either with farced pain or gammon pain.”

[D]ish him [the fish] with slices of oranges, barberries, grapes, gooseberries, and butter; and you will find that he eats deliriously either with farced pain or gammon pain.

“This project is eating up all the money.”

“His wretched estate is eaten up with mortgages.”

“A bigger problem, however, is that if you catch/eat an exception and do nothing with it, you are very likely introducing subtle bugs in your application that will be next to impossible to track down.”

“The VHS recorder just ate the tape and won't spit it out.”

“John is late for the meeting because the photocopier ate his report.”

“No! There's a problem with the cassette player. Don't press fast forward or it eats the tape!”

“The video game in the corner just ate my quarter.”

“Hey! This stupid [soda vending] machine ate my quarter.”

“What's eating you?”

“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.”

“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.”

“Mike had been to other calls where someone had eaten a gun. He knew to expect teeth embedded in the ceiling and brains dripping off it.”

“The animal was sweating and scared and MacAdams was surprised when they finished up without either of them eating a kick.”

“There was a resounding smacking noise and Georgy was sure Philip had just eaten a fist.”

“The acid rain ate away the statue.  The strong acid eats through the metal.”

“Eat me!”

“I ate his ass.”

“Yeah, eat that dick / eat that pussy.”

“You ate that performance!”

“This song eats!”

“Lorde and Charli XCX confronted each other via song like some kind of alt-pop musical-theater number, and it ate. “The girl, so confusing version with lorde,” like all the best pop music, features multiple moments that burrow into your brain and refuse to leave, giving you no other choice but to simply relisten to the track.”

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