Word Meanings - EAT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

akin to OS. etan, OFries. eta, D. eten, OHG. ezzan, G. essen, Icel. eta, Sw. äta, Dan. æde, Goth. itan, Ir. & Gael. ith, W. ysu, L. 1. To chew and swallow as food; to devour; -- said especially of food not liquid; as, to eat bread. "To eat grass

Additional info about word: EAT

akin to OS. etan, OFries. eta, D. eten, OHG. ezzan, G. essen, Icel. eta, Sw. äta, Dan. æde, Goth. itan, Ir. & Gael. ith, W. ysu, L. 1. To chew and swallow as food; to devour; -- said especially of food not liquid; as, to eat bread. "To eat grass as oxen." Dan. iv. 25. They . . . ate the sacrifices of the dead. Ps. cvi. 28. The lean . . . did eat up the first seven fat kine. Gen. xli. 20. The lion had not eaten the carcass. 1 Kings xiii. 28. With stories told of many a feat, How fairy Mab junkets eat. Milton. The island princes overbold Have eat our substance. Tennyson. His wretched estate is eaten up with mortgages. Thackeray. 2. To corrode, as metal, by rust; to consume the flesh, as a cancer; to waste or wear away; to destroy gradually; to cause to disappear. To eat humble pie. See under Humble. -- To eat of . "Eat of the bread that can not waste." Keble. -- To eat one's words, to retract what one has said. (See the Citation under Blurt.) -- To eat out, to consume completely. "Eat out the heart and comfort of it." Tillotson. -- To eat the wind out of a vessel , to gain slowly to windward of her. Syn. -- To consume; devour; gnaw; corrode.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EAT)

• Chew
• Masticate
• munch
• eat
• Corrode
• Eat
• rust
• gnaw
• canker
• wear
• crumble
• Devour
• consume
• swallow
• gorge
• gobble
• bolt
• absorb

Related words: (words related to EAT)

• CORRODENT
  Corrosive. Bp. King.
• GORGEOUS
  Imposing through splendid or various colors; showy; fine; magnificent. Cloud-land, gorgeous land. Coleridge. Gogeous as the sun at midsummer. Shak. -- Gor"geous*ly, adv. -- Gor"geous*ness, n. (more info) luxurious; cf. OF. gorgias ruff,
• SWALLOWFISH
  The European sapphirine gurnard . It has large pectoral fins.
• ABSORBING
  Swallowing, engrossing; as, an absorbing pursuit. -- Ab*sorb"ing, adv.
• SWALLOW
  Any one of numerous species of passerine birds of the family Hirundinidæ, especially one of those species in which the tail is deeply forked. They have long, pointed wings, and are noted for the swiftness and gracefulness of their flight. Note:
• CANKEREDLY
  Fretfully; spitefully.
• ABSORBITION
  Absorption.
• GORGET
  A crescent-shaped, colored patch on the neck of a bird or mammal. Gorget hummer , a humming bird of the genus Trochilus. See Rubythroat. (more info) 1. A piece of armor, whether of chain mail or of plate, defending the throat and upper part of
• ABSORBABILITY
  The state or quality of being absorbable. Graham .
• CANKER
  A disease incident to trees, causing the bark to rot and fall off. (more info) OHG chanchar.), fr. L. cancer a cancer; or if a native word, cf. Gr. 1. A corroding or sloughing ulcer; esp. a spreading gangrenous ulcer or collection of ulcers in
• MASTICATE
  To grind or crush with, or as with, the teeth and prepare for swallowing and digestion; to chew; as, to masticate food.
• CANKERWORM
  The larva of two species of geometrid moths which are very injurious to fruit and shade trees by eating, and often entirely destroying, the foliage. Other similar larvæ are also called cankerworms. Note: The autumnal species becomes adult late
• DEVOUR
  1. To eat up with greediness; to consume ravenously; to feast upon like a wild beast or a glutton; to prey upon. Some evil beast hath devoured him. Gen. xxxvii. 20. 2. To seize upon and destroy or appropriate greedily, selfishly, or wantonly; to
• CANKERED
  1. Affected with canker; as, a cankered mouth. 2. Affected mentally or morally as with canker; sore, envenomed; malignant; fretful; ill-natured. "A cankered grandam's will." Shak.
• CANKER RASH
  A form of scarlet fever characterized by ulcerated or putrid sore throat.
• SWALLOWER
  One who swallows; also, a glutton. Tatler.
• CANKER BLOOM
  The bloom or blossom of the wild rose or dog-rose.
• ABSORBENCY
  Absorptiveness.
• ABSORB
  Etym: 1. To swallow up; to engulf; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to use up; to include. "Dark oblivion soon absorbs them all." Cowper. The large cities absorb the wealth and fashion. W. Irving. 2. To suck up; to drink
• DEVOURABLE
  That may be devoured.
• REGORGE
  1. To vomit up; to eject from the stomach; to throw back. Hayward. 2. To swallow again; to swallow back. Tides at highest mark regorge the flood. DRyden.
• SELF-DEVOURING
  Devouring one's self or itself. Danham.
• COUPE-GORGE
  Any position giving the enemy such advantage that the troops occupying it must either surrender or be cut to pieces. Farrow.
• SEA SWALLOW
  See CHOUGH (more info) The common tern. The storm petrel. The gannet.
• DISGORGEMENT
  The act of disgorging; a vomiting; that which is disgorged. Bp. Hall.
• WATER CANKER
  See 1
• ENGORGE
  Etym: 1. To gorge; to glut. Mir. for Mag. 2. To swallow with greediness or in large quantities; to devour. Spenser.
• DEMIGORGE
  Half the gorge, or entrance into a bastion, taken from the angle of the flank to the center of the bastion.