Eat

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·- of Eat.

II. Eat ·vi To make one's way slowly.

III. Eat ·vi To taste or relish; as, it eats like tender beef.

IV. Eat ·- of Eat. Ate ·Impf of Eat.

V. Eat ·vt To chew and swallow as food; to Devour;

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

VI. 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.

VII. Eat ·vi To take food; to Feed; especially, to take solid, in distinction from liquid, food; to Board.

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