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.
Definitions
- of Eat
- transitive verb. To chew and swallow as food; to devour; -- said especially of food not liquid; as, to eat bread.
- transitive 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.
- intransitive verb. To take food; to feed; especially, to take solid, in distinction from liquid, food; to board.
- intransitive verb. To taste or relish; as, it eats like tender beef.
- intransitive verb. To make one's way slowly.
- verb. 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"
- verb. use up (resources or materials)
"this car consumes a lot of gas"
"We exhausted our savings"
- verb. 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"
- verb. take in solid food
"She was eating a banana"
"What did you eat for dinner last night?"
- verb. take in food; used of animals only
"This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat"
"What do whales eat?"
- verb. worry or cause anxiety in a persistent way
"What's eating you?"
Synonyms
corrode, rust, consume, deplete, exhaust, feed
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in eat:
Common word forms
eats, eaten, eater, eating, eatable
Words from these letters
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