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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Eat \Eat\ ([=e]t), verb (used with an object) [imp. {Ate} ([=a]t; 277), Obsolescent & Colloq. {Eat} ([e^]t); p. p. {Eaten} ([=e]t"'n), Obs. or Colloq. {Eat} ([e^]t); p. pr. & vb. n. {Eating}.] [OE. eten, AS. etan; akin to OS. etan, OFries. eta, D. eten, OHG. ezzan, G. essen, Icel. eta, Sw. ["a]ta, Dan. [ae]de, Goth. itan, Ir. & Gael. ith, W. ysu, L. edere, Gr. 'e'dein, Skr. ad. [root]6. Cf. {Etch}, {Fret} to rub, {Edible}.]
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 the 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} (partitive use). ''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} (Naut.), to gain slowly to windward of her.
Syn: To consume; devour; gnaw; corrode.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Eat \Eat\, verb (used without an object)
1. To take food; to feed; especially, to take solid, in distinction from liquid, food; to board.
He did eat continually at the king's table. --2 Sam. ix. 13.
2. To taste or relish; as, it eats like tender beef.
3. To make one's way slowly.
{To eat}, {To eat in} or {To eat into}, to make way by corrosion; to gnaw; to consume. ''A sword laid by, which eats into itself.'' --Byron.
{To eat to windward} (Naut.), to keep the course when closehauled with but little steering; -- said of a vessel.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
eat
verb
1: take in solid food; "She was eating a banana"; "What did you eat for dinner last night?"
2: 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"
3: take in food; used of animals only; "This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat"; "What do whales eat?" [syn: {feed}]
4: 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" [syn: {consume}, {eat up}, {use up}, {deplete}, {exhaust}, {run through}, {wipe out}]
5: worry or cause anxiety in a persistent way; "What's eating you?" [syn: {eat on}]
6: 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" [syn: {corrode}, {rust}] [also: {eaten}, {ate}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
75 Moby Thesaurus words for "eat": ablate, absorb, assimilate, bite, bleed white, break bread, burn up, canker, consume, corrode, count calories, deplete, devour, diet, digest, disregard, dissolve, down, drain, drain of resources, drink, eat away, eat into, eat out, eat up, engorge, engulf, erode, etch, exhaust, expend, fall to, fare, feed, feed on, finish, finish off, gnaw, gobble, gobble up, gulp, gulp down, hunger, ignore, imbibe, impoverish, ingest, ingurgitate, meal, nibble away, oxidize, partake, partake of, pitch in, pocket, pocket the affront, relish, rust, savor, spend, squander, stomach, suck dry, swallow, swallow an insult, swallow up, swill, swill down, take, taste, turn aside provocation, use up, waste away, wear away, wolf down
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition. "I was in the drawing-room, enjoying my dinner," said Brillat- Savarin, beginning an anecdote. "What!" interrupted Rochebriant; "eating dinner in a drawing-room?" "I must beg you to observe, monsieur," explained the great gastronome, "that I did not say I was eating my dinner, but enjoying it. I had dined an hour before."
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