EAT

of eat.

2. eat ·vi to make one's way slowly.

3. eat ·vi to taste or relish; as, it eats like tender beef.

4. eat ·- of eat. ate ·impf of eat.

5. eat ·vt to chew and swallow as food; to devour;

— said especially of food not liquid; as, to eat bread.

6. eat ·vt 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.

7. eat ·vi to take food; to feed; especially, to take solid, in distinction from liquid, food; to board.