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  1. transitive verb To take into the body by the mouth for digestion or absorption.
  2. transitive verb To take in and absorb as food: a plant that eats insects; a cell that eats bacteria.
  3. transitive verb To include habitually or by preference in one's diet: a bird that eats insects, fruit, and seeds; stopped eating red meat on advice from her doctor.
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  • He'd only eat, that is, have a little heart-to-heart with a girl, when he really needed to. —  The Cold Moon
  • Another: Now you can eat, eat, eat, and You won't get fat, fat, fat. —  Omni: Fall 1995
  • The only thing to be done is to eat, eat, eat, and the cold assists one wonderfully in that operation. —  The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley V.1
  • She was thinking that next day the men for once would feast to the full in the canteen--eat, drink, smoke, without paying a penny. —  Our Casualty, and Other Stories 1918
  • The food there by him, an' he eat--eat plenty much. —  The Heart of Unaga
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mouthful ·  diet ·  snack ·  eater ·  meal ·  repast ·  morsel ·  serve ·  cook ·  consumption ·  write ·  slice

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eat:   ate ·  Ate ·  eating ·  eaten ·  eats
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English eten, from Old English etan; see ed- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also eate, ete; from Middle English eten (preterit et, eet, æt, plural ete, eten, past participle eten), from Anglo-Saxon etan (preterit æt, plural ǣton, past participle eten) = Old Saxon etan = OFries. ita, eta, NFries. ytten = Middle Low German Low German eten = Dutch eten = Old High German ezan, ezzan, Middle High German ezzen, German essen = Icelandic eta = Swedish äta = Danish æde = Gothic (Moesogothic) itan = Latin edere = Gr.ἒδειν = Gaelic and Irish ith = Slav. √ *jad, *ēd = Sanskrit √ ad, eat. Cf. etch, fret, edible, etc.; all from the same ult. root.
 

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