Synonyms for eat
it; eɪt; esp. Brit. ɛt; ˈit neat

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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

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:3.5 / 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:
   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 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, 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, feed, corrode, consume, exhaust, rust, run through, eat on

Matched Categories

1. • Consume
   • Damage
   • Eat
   • Worry

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. eatverb

   Synonyms:
   chew and swallow

2. eatverb

   Synonyms:
   corrode, consume, wear away

3. eatverb

   Synonyms:
   feed, take food

4. eatverb

   Synonyms:
   act corrosively

5. eatverb

   Synonyms:
   [Colloquial.] taste, relish

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1. eatverb

   Synonyms:
   feed, devour, bolt, gulp, gorge

   Antonyms:
   abstain, fast, diet, starve, famish

2. eatverb

   Synonyms:
   consume, corrode, erode, fret

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "eat":

   eating, comer, essen, eaten, consume, eatingthe, lunch, feed, coma, devour, swallow, comma, aet, eatin, eats., food, dinner, sheronda, grub, grab

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How to use eat in a sentence?

1. Rita Hajjar:

   We were listening to David Letterman and David Letterman asked Barbara Bush, I think, what was Barbara Bush favorite places to eat, and Barbara Bush mentioned Fuzzy's.

2. Douglas Simmons:

   Everyone tells the bride and groom to just eat the cost and don’t worry about it. Why is that OK?

3. Paulus Langerock:

   There isn't much advice I can give. Don't waste your time fooling around, don't eat too much and don't run after women.

4. Thomas Jefferson:

   If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.

5. Anna Harrington:

   I'm' comfort shopping' the way that others' comfort eat,' i'm saving and spending the same amounts as before -- I'm lucky that my job is secure. But this past summer, I bought the oddest things I never would have normally bought -- a sunrise alarm clock, pink fuzzy bunny slippers, the entire Buffy the Vampire CD collection, and vintage furniture from the 1970s.