eating
Noun
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The act of consuming food (synset 100840028)
is a type of: consumption, ingestion, intake, uptake - the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)subtypes:
- mycophagy - the practice of eating fungi (especially mushrooms collected in the wild)
- bite, chomp - the act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws
- browse, browsing - the act of feeding by continual nibbling
- coprophagia, coprophagy - eating feces; in human a symptom of some kinds of insanity
- dining - the act of eating dinner
- engorgement - eating ravenously or voraciously to satiation
- banqueting, feasting - eating an elaborate meal (often accompanied by entertainment)
- graze, grazing - the act of grazing
- lunching - the act of eating lunch
- repletion, surfeit - eating until excessively full
- supping - ingestion of liquid food with a spoon or by drinking
- degustation, relishing, savoring, savouring, tasting - taking a small amount into the mouth to test its quality
- necrophagia, necrophagy - feeding on corpses or carrion
- omophagia - the eating of raw food
- scatophagy - the eating of excrement or other filth
has: chew, chewing, manduction, mastication - biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallowsame as: feeding
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