单词 | eat |
释义 | eat (once / 34 pages) 1v 2v 3v 4v If you leave an antique flowerpot outside all winter, the snow and rain might eat the paint, making it look even older than it is. 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. If your art project eats up all your art supplies, that means you don't have any left. Leaving your car lights on will eat through your battery. Something eating away at us is worrying us. Don't let money stress eat away at your happiness. WORD FAMILYeat: ate, eatable, eaten, eater, eatery, eating, eats, overeat+/eatable: eatables, uneatable/eater: eaters/eatery: eateries/eating: eatings/overeat: overeating, overeats/uneatable: uneatably USAGE EXAMPLESHe’s almost 67 years old, looks 22, and hasn’t eaten refined sugar in what appears to be a decade. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) Traditionally turtles were eaten at major events, like a wedding or a chief’s funeral. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) Around us a ballroom of people were laughing and eating and dancing. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1v take in solid food She was eating a banana What did you eat for dinner last night? Syn|Hypo|Hyper feed take in food; used of animals only wash down eat food accompanied by lots of liquid; also use metaphorically fress, gluttonise, gluttonizeeat a lot and without restraint wolf, wolf downeat hastily slurpeat noisily fareeat well dig in, pitch ineat heartily peck, peck at, pick ateat like a bird peck, pick upeat by pecking at, like a bird bolt, gobbleeat hastily without proper chewing bolt down, garbage down, gobble up, shovel ineat a large amount of food quickly nibble, pick, pieceeat intermittently; take small bites of ruminatechew the cuds dip, dunkdip into a liquid while eating devour, guttle, pig, raveneat greedily eat up, finish, polish offfinish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table consume, devour, down, go througheat immoderately fill, fill upeat until one is sated put away, tuck away, tuck ineat up; usually refers to a considerable quantity of food consume, have, ingest, take, take in serve oneself to, or consume regularly 2v take in food; used of animals only This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat What do whales eat? Syn|Hypo|Hyper feed forage wander and feed ravenfeed greedily sucklesuck milk from the mother's breasts browse, crop, graze, pasture, rangefeed as in a meadow or pasture predate, prey, ravenprey on or hunt for consume, have, ingest, take, take in serve oneself to, or consume regularly 3v eat a meal; take a meal 2We did not eat until 10 P.M. because there were so many phone calls I didn't eat yet, so I gladly accept your invitation Hypo|Hyper take away, take out buy and consume food from a restaurant or establishment that sells prepared food victualtake in nourishment dine in, eat ineat at home dine out, eat outeat at a restaurant or at somebody else's home dinehave supper; eat dinner picniceat alfresco, in the open air break breadhave a meal, usually with company nosh, snackeat a snack; eat lightly messeat in a mess hall lunchtake the midday meal bruncheat a meal in the late morning breakfasteat an early morning meal banquet, feast, junketpartake in a feast or banquet binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuffovereat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself wash downeat food accompanied by lots of liquid; also use metaphorically fress, gluttonise, gluttonizeeat a lot and without restraint wolf, wolf downeat hastily slurpeat noisily fareeat well dig in, pitch ineat heartily peck, peck at, pick ateat like a bird peck, pick upeat by pecking at, like a bird bolt, gobbleeat hastily without proper chewing bolt down, garbage down, gobble up, shovel ineat a large amount of food quickly nibble, pick, pieceeat intermittently; take small bites of ruminatechew the cuds browse, grazeeat lightly, try different dishes dip, dunkdip into a liquid while eating wine and dineeat sumptuously devour, guttle, pig, raveneat greedily eat up, finish, polish offfinish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table consume, devour, down, go througheat immoderately fill, fill upeat until one is sated consume, have, ingest, take, take in serve oneself to, or consume regularly v use up (resources or materials) 3Syn|Hypo|Hyper consume, deplete, eat up, exhaust, run through, use up, wipe out occupy, take, use up require (time or space) run out exhaust the supply of draindeplete of resources indulge, luxuriateenjoy to excess burn, burn off, burn upuse up (energy) spendspend completely exhaust, play out, run down, sap, tiredeplete surfeitindulge (one's appetite) to satiety overspendspend more than available of (a budget) underspendspend less than the whole of (a budget, for example) drop, expend, spend pay out v cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid 4Syn|Hyper corrode, rust corrode, rust become destroyed by water, air, or a corrosive such as an acid damage inflict damage upon v worry or cause anxiety in a persistent way What's eating you? Syn|Hyper eat on vex, worry disturb the peace of mind of; afflict with mental agitation or distress |
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