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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

EAT, v.t. pret. ate; pp. eat or eaten. [L. edo, esse, esum.]
1. To bite or chew and swallow, as food.
Men eat flesh and vegetables.
They shall make thee to eat grass as oxen. Daniel 4.
2. To corrode; to wear away; to separate parts of a thing gradually, as an animal by gnawing. We say a cancer eats the flesh.
3. To consume; to waste.
When goods increase, they are increased that eat them. Ecclesiastes 5.
4. To enjoy.
If ye be willing and obedient,ye shall eat the good of the land. Isaiah 1.
5. To consume; to oppress.
Who eat up my people as they eat bread. Psalms 14.
6. To feast.
Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall die. Isaiah 22.
In scripture, to eat the flesh of Christ, is to believe on him and be nourished by faith.
To eat one's words, is to swallow back; to take back what has been uttered; to retract.
EAT, v.i. To take food; to feed; to take a meal, or to board.
He did eat continually at the king's table. 2 Sam.
Why eateth your master with publicans and sinners. Matthew 9.
1. To take food; to be maintained in food.
To eat, or to eat in or into, is to make way by corrosion; to gnaw, to enter by gradually wearing or separating the parts of a substance. A cancer eats into the flesh.
Their word will eat as doth a canker. 2 Timothy 2.
To eat out, to consume.
Their word will eat out the vitals of religion, corrupt and destroy it.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
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, eat]
4: worry or cause anxiety in a persistent way; "What's eating you?" [syn: eat, eat on]
5: 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, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out]
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, eat, rust]

Merriam Webster's

I. verb (ate; eaten; eating) Etymology: Middle English eten, from Old English etan; akin to Old High German ezzan to eat, Latin edere, Greek edmenai Date: before 12th century 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. usually vulgar to perform fellatio or cunnilingus on — often used with out intransitive verb 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> • eater noun II. noun Etymology: Middle English et, from Old English ?t; akin to Old High German ?z food; derivative from the root of ¹eat Date: before 12th century something to eat ; food — usually used in plural

Oxford Reference Dictionary

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

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Eat Eat ([=e]t), v. t. [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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Eat Eat ([=e]t), v. t. [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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Eat Eat ([=e]t), v. t. [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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Eat Eat, v. i. 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 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(eats, eating, ate, eaten) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. When you eat something, you put it into your mouth, chew it, and swallow it. She was eating a sandwich... We took our time and ate slowly. VERB: V n, V 2. If you eat sensibly or healthily, you eat food that is good for you. ...a campaign to persuade people to eat more healthily. VERB: V adv 3. If you eat, you have a meal. Let's go out to eat... We ate lunch together a few times. VERB: V, V n 4. If something is eating you, it is annoying or worrying you. (INFORMAL) 'What the hell's eating you?' he demanded. VERB: only cont, V n 5. If you have someone eating out of your hand, they are completely under your control. She usually has the press eating out of her hand. PHRASE: V and N inflect 6. to have your cake and eat it: see cake dog eat dog: see dog to eat humble pie: see humble

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. v. a. 1. Chew and swallow, ingest. 2. Corrode, erode, consume, wear away, gnaw into. II. v. n. 1. Feed, take food. 2. Act corrosively. 3. (Colloq.) Taste, relish.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

To eat like a beggar man, and wag his under jaw; a jocular reproach to a proud man. To eat one's words; to retract what one has said.

Airports

Landing Facility Type	AIRPORT
Airport Code	EAT
EFF_DATE	02/16/2006
FAA Region	ANM
FAA District	SEA
State	WA
State	WASHINGTON
County	DOUGLAS
County State	WA
City Name	WENATCHEE
Full Name	PANGBORN MEMORIAL
Owner Type	PU
Facility Use	PU
Facility City, State, Zip	"EAST WENATCHEE, WA 98807"
Elevation	1249
Aeronautical chart on which the airport facility appears	SEATTLE
Distance from the central business district of the associated city to the airport in nautical miles	04
Direction of airport from the central business district of the associated city	E
Airport Certification Type and Date	I AS 05/1973
NASP/Federal Agreement Code	NGY3
Customs international airport	N
Customs Landing Rights Airport	N
Joint Use	N
Military Landing Rights	Y
Control Tower	N
Based Single Engine General Aviation Aircraft	087
Based Multi-engine general aviation aircraft	014
Based Jet engine general aviation aircraft	010
Based Helicopters	003
Base Operational Gliders	010
Based Ultralight aircraft	002
Commercial Services	003450
Air Taxi	012300
General Aviation, Local Operations	021500
General Aviation - Itinerant Operations	003650
Military Aircraft Operations	000500
Latitude	47.3984083333
Longitude	-120.2062416667
State FIPS code	53
State Postal Code	WA
Total domestic enplanements (inbound plus outbound)	41610
Version	09

Moby Thesaurus

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