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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]:
eaten \eaten\ adjective ingested through the mouth. Contrasted with {uneaten}. [Narrower terms: {consumed}; {devoured, eaten up(predicate)}] [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
eaten
adjective: having been taken into the mouth for consumption [ant: {uneaten}]
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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
eaten See {eat}
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