What is another word for eat?
Synonyms for eat
it; eɪt; esp. Brit. ɛt; ˈit neat
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Princeton's WordNet
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 oneatverb
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 onfeed, 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 ineat, 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 onconsume, 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, eradicatecorrode, 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
Dictionary of English Synonymes
eatverb
Synonyms:
chew and swalloweatverb
eatverb
eatverb
Synonyms:
act corrosivelyeatverb
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#26 | have | |
#246 | take | |
#311 | down | |
#418 | food | |
#428 | course | |
#555 | give | |
#625 | release | |
#672 | run | |
#1293 | feed | |
#1767 | flow | |
#1980 | waste | |
#2237 | breakfast | |
#2674 | finish | |
#2728 | eat | |
#2851 | beat | |
#2862 | tea | |
#2986 | dinner | |
#3096 | kill | |
#3492 | eating | |
#3584 | lunch | |
#5005 | worry | |
#5685 | discharge | |
#5808 | eliminate | |
#6587 | tire | |
#7393 | exhaust | |
#7500 | sap | |
#7552 | grab | |
#9696 | ware | |
#9936 | bother | |
#11033 | tucker | |
#11317 | feast | |
#11883 | swallow | |
#12299 | rust | |
#12727 | prey | |
#12788 | eaten | |
#13615 | erase | |
#13640 | consume | |
#13987 | bury | |
#14656 | comma | |
#14664 | supper | |
#15899 | occupy | |
#17463 | dine | |
#19972 | coma | |
#22190 | grub | |
#23336 | disturb | |
#25213 | essen | |
#27307 | eject | |
#28847 | eradicate | |
#36165 | comer | |
#40642 | immerse | |
#41031 | expel | |
#43092 | devour | |
#45925 | extinguish | |
#48993 | ingest | |
#57656 | aet | |
#60914 | deplete | |
#66079 | annihilate | |
#69430 | fertilize | |
#72502 | obliterate | |
#80961 | squander | |
#81037 | eatin | |
#93077 | corrode | |
#107435 | decimate | |
#217859 | fertilise |
How to use eat in a sentence?
Is the government going to tell us what we can eat and what we cannot eat? We've been eating beef for generations, it's like telling people they can't eat sugar. This ban won't work.
Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
People feel like they have no idea what to eat anymore, they've been listening to all these different food rules -- don't eat carbs, don't eat after seven, eat this to increase Al Bochi metabolism -- and intuitive eating helps Al Bochi unlearn that unhealthy relationship with food and bring enjoyment back to the act of eating.
Beans beans the magical fruit the more you eat the more you toot the more you eat the better you feel so let's eat beans for every meal.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.
Translations for eat
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- تأكلArabic
- spiseDanish
- essenGerman
- τρώωGreek
- manĝiEsperanto
- comerSpanish
- خوردنPersian
- syFinnish
- mangerFrench
- itheIrish
- ուտելArmenian
- makanIndonesian
- mangiareItalian
- 食べるJapanese
- 먹다Korean
- manducareLatin
- etenDutch
- spiseNorwegian
- comerPortuguese
- mâncaRomanian
- естьRussian
- ätaSwedish
- yemekTurkish
- کھاؤUrdu
- ănVietnamese
- עסןYiddish
- 吃Chinese
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