English > eating: 1 sense > noun 1, act| Meaning | The act of consuming food. |
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| Synonym | feeding |
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| Parts | chew, chewing, mastication, manduction | biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow |
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| Narrower | bite, chomp | The act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws |
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| browse, browsing | The act of feeding by continual nibbling |
| coprophagy, coprophagia | eating / eating feces |
| dining | The act of eating / eating dinner |
| engorgement | eating / eating / eating ravenously or voraciously to satiation |
| feasting, banqueting | eating / eating an elaborate meal (often accompanied by entertainment) |
| graze, grazing | The act of grazing / grazing |
| lunching | The act of eating / eating lunch |
| mycophagy | The practice of eating fungi (especially mushrooms collected in the wild) |
| necrophagia, necrophagy | feeding on corpses or carrion |
| omophagia | The eating of raw food |
| repletion, surfeit | eating until excessively full |
| scatophagy | The eating of excrement or other filth |
| supping | ingestion of liquid food with a spoon or by drinking |
| tasting, savoring, savouring, relishing, degustation | Taking a small amount into the mouth to test its quality |
| Broader | consumption, ingestion, intake, uptake | The process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating) |
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| Spanish | alimentación, nutrición |
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| Catalan | alimentació, nodriment, nutrició |
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| Verbs | eat | take in solid food |
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| eat | eat a meal |
| eat | take in food |
