verb
ADVERB
▪ well
▪
We ate very well most of the time (= had lots of nice food) .
▪ a lot , enough , too much
▪
He's not ~ing enough.
▪ healthfully ( AmE ), healthily , properly , sensibly
▪
I'm trying to ~ more healthily.
▪
She doesn't ~ sensibly ( = doesn't eat food that is good for her ).
▪ poorly
▪ hungrily , ravenously
▪ heartily
▪ sparingly
▪
Barton did not feel very hungry and ate sparingly.
▪ barely , hardly
▪
He'd barely eaten any breakfast.
▪ quickly , slowly
▪ in silence , quietly , silently
▪ happily
▪
Everyone happily ate the huge meal.
▪ alone , together
VERB + EAT
▪ find sth to , get (yourself) sth to , grab sth to , have sth to
▪
Do you have anything to ~?
▪ have enough to
▪ try and , try to
▪
Try and ~ something. It will do you good.
PHRASES
▪ a bite to ~ (= some food)
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Do you want to grab a bite to ~?
▪ ~ and drink
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Go and get yourself something to ~ and drink.
▪ ~ like a horse (= eat a lot)
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She's very thin but she ~s like a horse!
▪ ~ sb out of house and home
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He's ~ing us out of house and home ( = eating a lot of our food ).
▪ go ~ ( esp. AmE )
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Let's go ~.
▪ good enough to ~ ( figurative )
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You look good enough to ~!
▪ go out to ~
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We went out to ~ for a Chinese New Year celebration.
▪ a place to ~ (= a cafe or restaurant)
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Are you looking for a place to ~?
▪ sit down to ~
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We eventually sat down to ~ at 8.30 p.m.
Eat is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑ lion
Eat is used with these nouns as the object: ↑ apple , ↑ avocado , ↑ banana , ↑ beef , ↑ berry , ↑ biscuit , ↑ bowl , ↑ bun , ↑ cake , ↑ calorie , ↑ candy , ↑ carbohydrate , ↑ carrot , ↑ cereal , ↑ chicken , ↑ chip , ↑ chop , ↑ coconut , ↑ corn , ↑ crisp , ↑ cuisine , ↑ dessert , ↑ diet , ↑ dish , ↑ fat , ↑ feast , ↑ fish , ↑ flesh , ↑ food , ↑ fruit , ↑ grape , ↑ grass , ↑ ham , ↑ helping , ↑ ice cream , ↑ jelly , ↑ lunch , ↑ meat , ↑ morsel , ↑ mouthful , ↑ orange , ↑ pasta , ↑ pea , ↑ portion , ↑ potato , ↑ produce , ↑ ration , ↑ salad , ↑ salmon , ↑ sandwich , ↑ sausage , ↑ seafood , ↑ slice , ↑ snack , ↑ soup , ↑ starter , ↑ steak , ↑ sweet , ↑ thing , ↑ tomato , ↑ vegetables , ↑ wheat , ↑ word