Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
eat (verb)transitive verb
1.
to take in through the mouth as food ingest, chew, and swallow in turn
2.
a) to destroy, consume, or waste by or as if by eating - expenses ate up the profits gadgets that eat up too much space
b) to bear the expense of take a loss on - the team was forced to eat the rest of his contract
3.
a) to consume gradually - corrode cars eaten away by rust
b) to consume with vexation - bother what's eating you now
4.
to enjoy eagerly or avidly - lap used with up it was an amazing performance and the crowd ate it up
5.
intransitive verb
usually vulgar to perform fellatio or cunnilingus on - often used with out
1.
to take food or a meal
2.
to affect something by gradual destruction or consumption - usually used with into, away, or at the loss was really eating at her the controversy ate into his support
something to eat - food usually used in plural
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
eat (verb)1.
to take in as food
SYNONIMS:
consume, ingest, partake (of), put away, put down, tuck (away in)RELATED WORDS:
digest, down, mouth (down), swallow; bolt, chow (down on), devour, glut (on), gobble (up down), gorge, gulp, scoff, slop, snarf (down), swill, wolf; chew, gnaw (at on), gum, lap, lick, nibble (on), nurse, pick (at); relish, savor ( savour), taste; banquet, dine, fare, feast, gormandize, pig out, regale; dispatch, polish off; breakfast, lunch, sup; munch, nosh, snack2.
to consume or wear away gradually
SYNONIMS:
bite (at), corrode, erode, fret, gnaw, nibbleRELATED WORDS:
break down, break up, decompose, disintegrate, dissolve; decimate, destroy, devastate, ruin, waste, wreckNEAR ANTONYMS:
freshen, recreate, refresh, refreshen, regenerate, rejuvenate, renew, restore, revitalize, revive3.
to take a meal
SYNONIMS:
eat, fare, feed, partake, refresh, victualRELATED WORDS:
banquet, feast, repast; chow (down), dig in; glut, gorge, gormandize, overeat, overfeed, pig out; graze, nibble, nosh, pick, snack; board, mess, dine out; breakfast, lunch, sup; picnicNEAR ANTONYMS:
diet, fast4.
to disturb the peace of mind of (someone) especially by repeated disagreeable acts
SYNONIMS:
aggravate, annoy, bother, bug, burn (up), chafe, eat, exasperate, frost, gall, get, grate, gripe, hack (off), irk, itch, nark, nettle, peeve, persecute, pique, put out, rasp, rile, ruffle, spite, vexRELATED WORDS:
hassle, heckle; nag; inflame ( enflame), provoke, rouse; badger, bait, bullyrag ( ballyrag), devil, hagride, harass, harry, pester, plague, tease; anger, antagonize, enrage, incense, infuriate, madden, rankle, roil; agitate, discomfort, discompose, disquiet, distress, exercise, freak (out), fret, perturb, undo, unhinge, unsettle, upset, worry; affront, insult, miff, offend, outrageNEAR ANTONYMS:
appease, conciliate, mollify, oblige, pacify, placate, propitiate; delight, gladden, gratify, please, satisfy; assure, cheer, comfort, console, content, quiet, reassure, solace, soothe1.
to receive or accept gladly or readily
SYNONIMS:
drink (in), eat (up), embrace, lap (up)RELATED WORDS:
adopt, espouse, take up; greet, hail; enjoy, like, prefer; cherry-pick, choose, cull, decide (on), elect, handpick, name, opt (for), pick, select, single (out), takeNEAR ANTONYMS:
balk (at), decline, pass up, refuse, reject, spurn, throw over, turn down; demur (to), object (to)2.
to destroy all trace of
SYNONIMS:
devour, eat (up)RELATED WORDS:
gut; deplete, drain, exhaust, expend, spend, use up; annihilate, decimate, demolish, desolate, devastate, do in, pulverize, raze, ruin, shatter, smash, tear down, waste, wreck; annihilate, blot out, eradicate, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, obliterate, remove, rub out, stamp (out), wipe outNEAR ANTONYMS:
conserve, preserve, protect, save; build, construct, erect, put up, raise