eat
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(verb) eat a meal; take a meal; "We did not eat until 10 P.M. because there were so many phone calls"; "I didn't eat yet, fo I gladly accept your invitation" |
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Related Words: banquet, binge, break bread, breakfast, brunch, consume, dine, dine in, dine out, eat in, eat out, englut, engorge, feast, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, have, ingest, ingurgitate, junket, lunch, mess, nosh, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, picnic, pig out, satiate, scarf out, snack, stuff, sup, take, take in, victual |
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(verb) take in solid food; "She was eating a banana"; "What did you eat for dinner last night?" |
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Related Words: bolt, bolt down, consume, consume, devour, dig in, dip, down, dunk, eat up, fare, finish, fress, gluttonize, go through, gobble, gobble up, gulp, guttle, have, ingest, munch, nibble, peck, peck at, pick, pick at, pick up, piece, pig, pitch in, polish off, raven, ruminate, shovel in, slurp, smack, take, take in, wash down, wolf, wolf down |
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(verb) worry or cause anxiety in a persistent way: "What's eating you?" |
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Synonyms: eat on |
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Related Words: worry |
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(verb) cause to rust; "The acid corroded the metal" |
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Synonyms: corrode, rust |
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Related Words: damage |
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(verb) take in food; used of animals only: "This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat"; "What do whales eat?" |
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Synonyms: feed |
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Related Words: browse, consume, crop, forage, graze, have, ingest, pasture, range, raven, suckle, take, take in, victual |
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(verb) use up, as of resources or materials; "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week" |
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Synonyms: consume, deplete, eat up, exhaust, run through, use up, wipe out |
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Related Words: burn, burn off, burn up, drain, drop, expend, indulge, luxuriate, run out, sap, spend |
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