- eat
- [[t]i͟ːt[/t]]
♦♦1) VERB When you eat something, you put it into your mouth, chew it, and swallow it.
[V n] She was eating a sandwich...
[V n] The bananas should be eaten within two days...
We took our time and ate slowly.
2) VERB If you eat sensibly or healthily, you eat food that is good for you.[V adv] ...a campaign to persuade people to eat more healthily.
3) VERB If you eat, you have a meal.Let's go out to eat...
[V n] We ate lunch together a few times.
4) VERB: only cont If something is eating you, it is annoying or worrying you. [INFORMAL][V n] `What the hell's eating you?' he demanded.
5) PHRASE: V and N inflect If you have someone eating out of your hand, they are completely under your control.No-one can handle the press as she can and she usually has them eating out of her hand by the time they leave.
6) PHRASE: V and N inflect People use eat your heart out with the name of a person when they are doing something that they think the person named might be jealous of.A limousine was sent to pick me up and deliver me to the set. Eat your heart out, Tom Selleck!...
I want everyone back in Cleveland to be eating their crummy little hearts out.
7) PHRASE: V inflects If you eat someone out of house and home, you eat a lot of their food, especially when you are living with them. [INFORMAL]Is Karen still eating you out of house and home?
Phrasal Verbs:- eat away- eat into- eat up
English dictionary. 2008.