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Antonyms for EAT
it; eɪt; esp. Brit. ɛt; ˈit neat

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Wiktionary1.0 / 1 vote

  1. eatverb

    Synonyms:
    disturb, bother, worry

  2. eatverb

    Synonyms:
    chow down, dinner, dine, tea, lunch, breakfast, supper

  3. eatverb

    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.

    Synonyms:
    consume, swallow

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Princeton's WordNet3.5 / 2 votes

  1. eatverb

    take in solid food

    "She was eating a banana"; "What did you eat for dinner last night?"

    Synonyms:
    rust, eat up, corrode, deplete, use up, run through, feed, consume, wipe out, exhaust, eat on

  2. eatverb

    eat a meal; take a meal

    "We did not eat until 10 P.M. because there were so many phone calls"; "I didn't eat yet, so I gladly accept your invitation"

    Synonyms:
    rust, eat up, corrode, deplete, use up, run through, feed, consume, wipe out, exhaust, eat on

  3. feed, eatverb

    take in food; used of animals only

    "This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat"; "What do whales eat?"

    Synonyms:
    eat, wipe out, eat on, give, fertilise, rust, eat up, run, feed, exhaust, run through, deplete, consume, prey, feast, corrode, flow, fertilize, course, use up, feed in

  4. eat, eat onverb

    worry or cause anxiety in a persistent way

    "What's eating you?"

    Synonyms:
    rust, eat up, corrode, deplete, use up, run through, feed, consume, wipe out, exhaust, eat, eat on

  5. consume, eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe outverb

    use up (resources or materials)

    "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week"

    Synonyms:
    exhaust, take in, eat on, eat up, play out, expel, ware, wash up, eat, erase, release, corrode, beat, tire, kill, go through, eliminate, take, have, occupy, waste, finish, use up, swallow, tucker, polish off, decimate, tucker out, rust, feed, ingest, swallow up, obliterate, run through, extinguish, squander, annihilate, wipe out, bury, down, discharge, run down, work through, devour, sweep away, sap, cancel out, eject, immerse, consume, carry off, deplete, eradicate

  6. corrode, eat, rustverb

    cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid

    "The acid corroded the metal"; "The steady dripping of water rusted the metal stopper in the sink"

    Synonyms:
    eat up, wipe out, deplete, use up, eat, feed, corrode, consume, exhaust, rust, run through, eat on

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. eatverb

    Antonyms:
    abstain, fast, diet, starve, famish

    Synonyms:
    feed, devour, bolt, gulp, gorge

  2. eatverb

    Synonyms:
    consume, corrode, erode, fret

Editors Contribution0.0 / 0 votes

  1. fast

    fasting is primarily an act of willing abstinence or reduction from certain or all food, drink, or both, for a period of time.

    periods of not eating are common in several religions and cultures.

    Submitted by JP03 on October 7, 2015  
  2. drink

    antonym as a verb ...noting antonym as a noun is food

    i will drink the hot dog after i eat the can of soda pop

    Submitted by nellietang8 on September 6, 2022  

How to use EAT in a sentence?

  1. Miguel de Cervantes:

    You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.

  2. Jack Carter:

    Someone had said something to the effect of ‘Oh you’re insane. You’re crazy. You’re messed up in the head,’ to which he replied ‘Oh yeah, I’m real messed up in the head. I’m going to go shoot up a school full of kids and eat their still-beating hearts.’.

  3. Alberto Vellos:

    The economy has taken a hit under this administration, and while they boast about the infrastructure development, the people are saying we can't eat concrete.

  4. Ami Zota:

    Not only are our results highly statistically significant, you also want to look at whether the effects are meaningful, in our case, we saw a 20 to 40 percent difference between those who didn’t eat fast food and the high consumers, which we also found was striking. This is after accounting for differences in age, sex, ethnicity, household income and BMI.

  5. Lawrence Cheskin:

    People have the lowest health risk when they eat fruits and vegetables and whole grains.

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