eat

Etymology 1
From, from , from , from , from , from.

Verb



 * 1) To ingest; to be ingested.
 * 2)  To consume (something solid or semi-solid, usually food) by putting it into the mouth and swallowing it.
 * 3)  To consume a meal.
 * 4) * 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
 * I eat in the kitchen.
 * 1)  To be eaten.
 * 2)  To have a particular quality of diet; to be well-fed or underfed (typically as "eat healthy" or "eat good").
 * 3) To use up.
 * 4)  To destroy, consume, or use up.
 * 5)  To consume (an exception, an event, etc.) so that other parts of the program do not receive it.
 * 6)  To damage, destroy, or fail to eject a removable part or an inserted object.
 * 7) * 1991,,  (movie)
 * No! There's a problem with the cassette player. Don't press fast forward or it eats the tape!
 * 1)  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.
 * 2) * 1977,,  (movie)
 * Hey! This stupid [soda vending] machine ate my quarter.
 * 1)  To cause (someone) to worry.
 * 2)  To take the loss in a transaction.
 * 3) * 1988,,  (movie)
 * 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.
 * 1)  To be injured or killed by (something such as a firearm or its projectile), especially in the mouth.
 * 2) * 1944, William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, Jules Furthman, The Big Sleep (screenplay)
 * I risk my whole future, the hatred of the cops and Eddie Mars' gang. I dodge bullets and eat saps.
 * 1) * 1997, A. A. Gill, "Diary" (in The Spectator, 1 November 1997):
 * 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.
 * 1)  To corrode or erode.
 * 2)  To perform oral sex (on a person or body part).
 * 3)  To be very good; to rule; to rock.
 * 4)  To annex.
 * 1) * 1977,,  (movie)
 * Hey! This stupid [soda vending] machine ate my quarter.
 * 1)  To cause (someone) to worry.
 * 2)  To take the loss in a transaction.
 * 3) * 1988,,  (movie)
 * 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.
 * 1)  To be injured or killed by (something such as a firearm or its projectile), especially in the mouth.
 * 2) * 1944, William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, Jules Furthman, The Big Sleep (screenplay)
 * I risk my whole future, the hatred of the cops and Eddie Mars' gang. I dodge bullets and eat saps.
 * 1) * 1997, A. A. Gill, "Diary" (in The Spectator, 1 November 1997):
 * 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.
 * 1)  To corrode or erode.
 * 2)  To perform oral sex (on a person or body part).
 * 3)  To be very good; to rule; to rock.
 * 4)  To annex.
 * 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.
 * 1)  To corrode or erode.
 * 2)  To perform oral sex (on a person or body part).
 * 3)  To be very good; to rule; to rock.
 * 4)  To annex.
 * 1)  To perform oral sex (on a person or body part).
 * 2)  To be very good; to rule; to rock.
 * 3)  To annex.
 * 1)  To be very good; to rule; to rock.
 * 2)  To annex.
 * 1)  To be very good; to rule; to rock.
 * 2)  To annex.
 * 1)  To annex.
 * 1)  To annex.
 * 1)  To annex.

Synonyms

 * , ; see also Thesaurus:eat
 * ,, , , have one's ////,
 * ; see also Thesaurus:oral sex
 * ; see also Thesaurus:oral sex

Translations

 * Interlingua:

Etymology 2
From, , , from , from , from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  Something to be eaten; a meal; a food item.

Etymology
From, , from +  (from ). Compare 🇨🇬, aught.

Pronoun

 * 1) something, anything