The meaning of EAT is to take in through the mouth as food : ingest, chew, and swallow in turn. How to use eat in a sentence.

eat verb [I/T] (HAVE FOOD) Add to word list to put food into the mouth, chew it, and swallow it:

5 days ago · eat (third-person singular simple present eats, present participle eating, simple past ate or (dialectal) et or (obsolete) eat, past participle eaten or (dialectal) etten or (nonstandard) ate) To …

Idioms eat someone out of house and home, to eat so much as to strain someone's resources of food or money: A group of hungry teenagers can eat you out of house and home.

Synonyms: eat, consume, devour, ingest These verbs mean to take food into the body by the mouth: ate a hearty dinner; greedily consumed the sandwich; hyenas devouring their prey; whales ingesting krill.

Definition of eat verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

EAT definition: to take into the mouth and swallow for nourishment; chew and swallow (food). See examples of eat used in a sentence.

You probably know that eat means "to consume food," because you do that several times a day. But we also use the verb eat for other situations involving using something up or wearing it down.

eat verb [I/T] (HAVE FOOD) Add to word list to put food into the mouth, chew it, and swallow it:

Who ate all the cake? You should eat more slowly. I haven't eaten since breakfast. Let's have something to eat (= some food).