Eat

Eat - Other Definitions

• () of Eat
  
  
• (v. t.) To chew and swallow as food; to devour; -- said especially of food not liquid; as, to eat bread.
  
  
• (v. t.) 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.
  
  
• (v. i.) To take food; to feed; especially, to take solid, in distinction from liquid, food; to board.
  
  
• (v. i.) To taste or relish; as, it eats like tender beef.
  
  
• (v. i.) To make one's way slowly.
  
  
• (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Eat
  
  
• (n.) The act of tasking food; the act of consuming or corroding.
  
  
• (n.) Something fit to be eaten; food; as, a peach is good eating.