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eating::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | feeding |
| Type of | uptake, consumption, ingestion, intake |
| Has types | supping, bite, browse, browsing, coprophagia, coprophagy, degustation, dining, engorgement, feasting, graze, grazing, tasting, banqueting, lunching, chomp, surfeit, mycophagy, necrophagia, necrophagy, omophagia, relishing, repletion, savoring, savouring, scatophagy |
| Derivation | eat |
Examples of eating
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Everyone who enjoys eating out now has the opportunity to help Hillsboro School.
From the tennessean.com
What kept her going, she said, was that the plan addressed her emotional eating.
From the stltoday.com
More theater-type entertainment to keep guests eating and spending at the hotel.
From the thenewstribune.com
For people with food allergies and digestive disorders, eating out can be risky.
From the boston.com
Eating right and shedding excess weight are critical for long-term heart health.
From the orlandosentinel.com
They tasted like they were designed by someone who actually enjoys eating salad.
From the timesunion.com
A portico beside the pool supports old wisteria vines and shades an eating area.
From the post-gazette.com
Thomas Jefferson was a wine collector living in the South, eating Southern food.
From the sfgate.com
If he could have helped by eating the ball, they'd be pumping his stomach today.
From the post-gazette.com
- Take in solid food; "She was eating a banana"; "What did you eat for dinner last night?"
- Eat a meal; take a meal; "We did not eat until 10 P.M. because there were so many phone calls"; "I didn't eat yet, so I gladly accept your invitation"
- Feed: take in food; used of animals only; "This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat"; "What do whales eat?"
- Worry or cause anxiety in a persistent way; "What's eating you?"
- Consume: use up (resources or materials); "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week"
- Corrode: cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid; "The acid corroded the metal"; "The steady dripping of water rusted the metal stopper in the sink"
- EAT. (also known as EAT. Cafe) is a chain of sandwich shops with over 90 branches in the UK, the majority in London, with others in Birmingham, Brighton, Cambridge, Canterbury, London Heathrow Airport (Terminal 3 and 5), Gatwick Airport, Leicester, Manchester, Windsor, Oxford and Edinburgh.
- Eat were a British alternative rock band who were active in the late 1980s and early 1990s. They released two albums on The Cure's label Fiction. Although achieving reasonable success in the UK, the band failed to attract attention in the United States.
- Eat (1963) is a 45-minute American film created by Andy Warhol.
