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eat

EN • English

//iːt//(Received Pronunciation)

Verb Conjugation Tables & Inflections

Key Verb Forms & Inflections

Third-person singular (he/she/it):eats

Present Participle (-ing):eating

Simple Past:ate

Past Participle:eaten

Definitions & Usage

verb

To ingest; to be ingested.

Synonyms:

have fret

verb

To use up.

Synonyms:

have fret

verb

(transitive, informal) To cause (someone) to worry.

Example: “What's eating you?”

Synonyms:

bother disturb worry have fret

verb

(transitive, business) To take the loss in a transaction.

Example: “I have to have him in court tomorrow, if he doesn't show up, I forfeit the bond and I have to eat the $300,000.”

Synonyms:

have fret

verb

(transitive, slang) To be injured or killed by (something such as a firearm or its projectile), especially in the mouth.

Example: “I risk my whole future, the hatred of the cops and Eddie Mars' gang. I dodge bullets and eat saps.”

Example: “Friends are only necessary in the ghastly country, where you have to have them, along with rubber boots and a barometer and secateurs, to put off bucolic idiocy, a wet brain, or eating the 12-bore.”

Synonyms:

have fret

verb

(ambitransitive) To corrode or erode.

Example: “The acid rain ate away the statue. The strong acid eats through the metal.”

Synonyms:

have fret

verb

(transitive, slang) To perform oral sex (on a person or body part).

Example: “Eat me!”

Example: “I ate his ass.”

Synonyms:

eat out have fret

verb

(stative, slang) To do or perform well and stunningly; to consume a challenge successfully and stylishly; to rule, to slay.

Example: “You ate that performance!”

Example: “This song eats!”

Synonyms:

devour eat and leave no crumbs bang rock slap excel go hard kick

verb

(transitive, slang) To annex.

Synonyms:

have fret

noun

#10

(colloquial) Something to be eaten; a meal; a food item.

Notable Literary & Historical Quotes

“The server made an error when taking the order. The bartender prepared two scorpion bowls. When the error was realized the bartender was faced with having to "eat" the extra scorpion bowl […]”

— 1999, Ronald S. Beitman, Liquor Liability: A Primer for Winning Your Case, page 27:

“When they were doing it with the valuation professionals, they were billing the client, but the valuation professional in a lot of those early cases had to eat the cost of showing the auditor how the auditors' test model was incorrect.”

— 2011, Lorenzo Carver, Venture Capital Valuation:

“And, of course, there was Brian Rusk, who had eaten a bullet at the ripe old age of eleven.”

— 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things: