| Meaning | take in solid food. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
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| Model | They eat more bread |
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| Examples | - "She was eating a banana"
- "What did you eat for dinner last night?"
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| Entails | chew, masticate, manducate, jaw | chew (food) |
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| swallow, get down | pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking |
| Caused by | feed, give | Give food to |
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| Narrower | devour, guttle, raven, pig | Eat greedily |
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| eat up, finish, polish off | Finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table |
| fare | Eat well |
| fill up, fill | Eat until one is sated |
| garbage down, gobble up, shovel in, bolt down | Eat a large amount of food quickly |
| gluttonize, gluttonise, fress | Eat a lot and without restraint |
| gobble, bolt | Eat hastily without proper chewing |
| nibble, pick, piece | Eat intermittently |
| peck, pick up | Eat by pecking at, like a bird |
| pick at, peck at, peck | Eat like a bird |
| ruminate | chew the cuds |
| slurp | Eat noisily |
| wash down | Eat food accompanied by lots of liquid / liquid |
| wolf, wolf down | Eat hastily |
| Broader | consume, ingest, take in, take, have | Serve oneself to, or consume regularly |
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| eat | Eat a meal |
| Similar to | eat | Eat a meal |
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| feed, eat | take in food |
| Spanish | comerse, comer, consumir, jamarse, jamar |
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| Catalan | consumir, cruspir-se, jalar, menjar-se, menjar |
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| Nouns | eater | any green goods that are good to eat |
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| eater | someone who consumes food for nourishment |
| eating | the act of consuming food |
