Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Suitable for being eaten, especially without cooking.
- adjective Used in the ingestion of food, as at the table.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Corroding; caustic.
- noun The act of consuming food, especially solid food.
- noun That which may be eaten; food: as, the birds were delicious eating.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of tasking food; the act of consuming or corroding.
- noun colloq. Something fit to be eaten; food.
- noun a house where cooked provisions are sold, to be eaten on the premises.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
eat . - adjective Suitable to be
eaten without beingcooked - noun the act of
consuming food - noun food,
comestibles
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of consuming food
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Examples
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Or eating as much, but thankfully, he is still *eating* enough!
Archive 2009-04-01 Loukia 2009
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The thought of, uh, escape had crossed my mind, and then suddenly - suddenly - suddenly I felt like bending the freakin bars back, and ripping out the damn window frames and eating them - yes, * eating* them!
Latest Articles 2008
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eating disorder self help books what about it..eating disorder self help books
A Flock in the Wind sfmike 2005
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The fact is, our brains are set up to pursue pleasure (as in eating is pleasurable) and avoid pain (even emotional pain).
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The expression "eating rice in humiliation," which supporters of free lunches often use, reminds Koreans of the years of deprivation following the 1950-53 Korean War, when many had to beg to survive.
NYT > Home Page By CHOE SANG-HUN 2011
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, that's what we call eating and drinking at the same time.
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While you would eat and smoked all was about the same, when you'd come out for what they called the eating period, smoking period.
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Breakfast of Champions is what I call eating anything unusual for breakfast.
Ochuk's blog Ochuk 2009
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Kind of reminds me, of my late teens, when interest in eating 'wild plants' and youthful enthusiasm was at its peak.
Page 2 2009
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The thing they were eating is visible under the middle bird in the top picture.
Archive 2009-03-01 AYDIN 2009
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