Definition of: eat

(ēt) v. ate or Brit. eat (et), eat·en, eat·ing v.t.
1. To take (food) into the mouth and swallow.
2. To consume or destroy by or as by eating: often with away or up.
3. To wear into or away; corrode; rust.
4. To make (a way or hole) by or as by gnawing or chewing.
—v.i.
5. To take in food; have a meal.
6. To bore into or corrode something: with through or into.
—to eat crow To accept what one had been against; submit to humiliation.
—to eat humble pie To make humble apologies.
—to eat one's words To retract what one has said.
—to eat up
1. To consume completely.
2. To pass over rapidly: to eat up the miles. [OE etan]
—eat′er noun