Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - eat
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v. (past ate; past part. eaten) 1 a tr. take into the mouth, chew, and swallow (food). b intr. consume food; take a meal. c tr. devour (eaten by a lion). 2 intr. (foll. by (away) at, into) a destroy gradually, esp. by corrosion, erosion, disease, etc. b begin to consume or diminish (resources etc.). 3 tr. colloq. trouble, vex (what's eating you?). Phrases and idioms eat dirt see DIRT. eat one's hat colloq. admit one's surprise in being wrong (only as a proposition unlikely to be fulfilled : said he would eat his hat). eat one's heart out suffer from excessive longing or envy. eat humble pie see HUMBLE. eat out have a meal away from home, esp. in a restaurant. eat out of a person's hand be entirely submissive to a person. eat salt with see SALT. eat up 1 (also absol.) eat or consume completely. 2 use or deal with rapidly or wastefully (eats up petrol; eats up the miles). 3 encroach upon or annex (eating up the neighbouring States). 4 absorb, preoccupy (eaten up with pride). eat one's words admit that one was wrong. Etymology: OE etan f. Gmc
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I. verb (ate; ~en; ~ing) Etymology: Middle English eten, from Old English etan; akin to Old High German ezzan to ~, Latin edere, Greek edmenai Date: before 12th century transitive verb to take in through the mouth as food ; ingest, chew, and swallow in turn, 2. to destroy, consume, or waste by or as if by ~ing , to bear the expense of ; take a loss on , 3. to consume gradually ; corrode , to consume with vexation ; bother , to enjoy eagerly or avidly ; lap, to perform fellatio or cunnilingus on, intransitive verb to take food or a meal, to affect something by gradual destruction or consumption, ~er noun II. noun Etymology: Middle English et, from Old English ǣt; akin to Old High German āz food; derivative from the root of 1~ Date: before 12th century something to ~ ; food ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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