eat
Verb
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- wash down - eat food accompanied by lots of liquid; also use metaphorically
- fress, gluttonise, gluttonize - eat a lot and without restraint
- wolf, wolf down - eat hastily
- slurp - eat noisily
- fare - eat well
- peck, peck at, pick at - eat like a bird
- peck, pick up - eat by pecking at, like a bird
- bolt, gobble - eat hastily without proper chewing
- bolt down, garbage down, gobble up, shovel in - eat a large amount of food quickly
- nibble, pick, piece - eat intermittently; take small bites of
- ruminate - chew the cuds
- devour, guttle, pig, raven - eat greedily
- eat up, finish, polish off - finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table
- fill, fill up - eat until one is sated
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- take away, take out - buy and consume food from a restaurant or establishment that sells prepared food
- victual - take in nourishment
- dine in, eat in - eat at home
- dine out, eat out - eat at a restaurant or at somebody else's home
- dine - have supper; eat dinner
- picnic - eat alfresco, in the open air
- eat - take in solid food
- break bread - have a meal, usually with company
- dig in, pitch in - eat heartily
- nosh, snack - eat a snack; eat lightly
- mess - eat in a mess hall
- lunch - take the midday meal
- brunch - eat a meal in the late morning
- breakfast - eat an early morning meal
- banquet, feast, junket - partake in a feast or banquet
- binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff - overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
verb group: eat - take in solid food -
subtypes:same as: feedverb group: eat - take in solid food
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same as: eat on
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is a type of: damage - inflict damage upon
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