Dictionary Entry
eat
eat is a 3-letter English word with 12 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: of Eat. Face value is 3 in Scrabble and 3 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
3 letters · Scrabble 3 · Words With Friends 3 · 12 senses
Definitions
- 1
of Eat
- 2transitive verb
To chew and swallow as food; to devour; -- said especially of food not liquid; as, to eat bread.
- 3transitive verb
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.
- 4intransitive verb
To take food; to feed; especially, to take solid, in distinction from liquid, food; to board.
- 5intransitive verb
To taste or relish; as, it eats like tender beef.
- 6intransitive verb
To make one's way slowly.
- 7verb
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"
- 8verb
use up (resources or materials)
"this car consumes a lot of gas"
"We exhausted our savings"
- 9verb
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"
- 10verb
take in solid food
"She was eating a banana"
"What did you eat for dinner last night?"
- 11verb
take in food; used of animals only
"This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat"
"What do whales eat?"
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- 12verb
worry or cause anxiety in a persistent way
"What's eating you?"
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