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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Eat \Eat\ ([=e]t), v. t. [imp. {Ate} ([=a]t; 277), Obsolescent & Colloq. {Eat} ([e^]t); p. p. {Eaten} ([=e]t"'n), Obs. or Colloq. {Eat} ([e^]t); p. pr & vb n. {Eating}.] [OE. eten, AS etan; akin to OS etan, OFries eta, D. eten, OHG. ezzan G. essen, Icel. eta, Sw ["a]ta, Dan. [ae]de, Goth. itan, Ir & Gael. ith, W. ysu, L. edere, Gr 'e`dein, Skr. ad [root]6. Cf {Etch}, {Fret} to rub, {Edible}.] 1. To chew and swallow as food; to devour; -- said especially of food not liquid; as to eat bread. ``To eat grass as oxen.'' --Dan. iv 25. They . . . ate the sacrifices of the dead. --Ps. cvi. 28. The lean . . . did eat up the first seven fat kine. --Gen. xli. 20. The lion had not eaten the carcass. --1 Kings xiii. 28. With stories told of many a feat, How fairy Mab the junkets eat. --Milton. The island princes overbold Have eat our substance. --Tennyson. His wretched estate is eaten up with mortgages. --Thackeray. 2. 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. {To eat humble pie}. See under {Humble}. {To eat of} (partitive use). ``Eat of the bread that can not waste.'' --Keble. {To eat one's words}, to retract what one has said (See the Citation under {Blurt}.) {To eat out}, to consume completely. ``Eat out the heart and comfort of it.'' --Tillotson. {To eat the wind out of a vessel} (Naut.), to gain slowly to windward of her Syn: To consume; devour; gnaw; corrode. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: eaten adj : having been taken into the mouth for consumption [ant: {uneaten}]
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