The meaning of EAT is to take in through the mouth as food : ingest, chew, and swallow in turn. How to use eat in a sentence.

3 days ago · eat (third-person singular simple present eats, present participle eating, simple past ate or (dialectal) et or (obsolete) eat, past participle eaten or (dialectal) etten or (nonstandard) ate) To …

Eating (also known as consuming) is the ingestion of food. In biology, this is typically done to provide a heterotrophic organism with energy and nutrients and to allow for growth.

eat verb [I/T] (HAVE FOOD) Add to word list to put food into the mouth, chew it, and swallow it:

Synonyms: eat, consume, devour, ingest These verbs mean to take food into the body by the mouth: ate a hearty dinner; greedily consumed the sandwich; hyenas devouring their prey; whales ingesting krill.

If you eat, you have a meal. Let's go out to eat. [VERB] We ate lunch together a few times. [VERB noun]

Idioms eat someone out of house and home, to eat so much as to strain someone's resources of food or money: A group of hungry teenagers can eat you out of house and home.

Definition of eat verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

Eat definition: To destroy, ravage, or use up by or as if by ingesting.

EAT definition: to take into the mouth and swallow for nourishment; chew and swallow (food). See examples of eat used in a sentence.