1. to take into the mouth and swallow for nourishment; chew and swallow (food).
2. to consume by or as if by devouring gradually; wear away; corrode: The patient was eaten by disease and pain.
3. to make (a hole, passage, etc.), as by gnawing or corrosion.
4. to ravage or devastate: a forest eaten by fire.
5. to use up, especially wastefully; consume (often followed by up): Unexpected expenses have been eating up their savings.
6. to absorb or pay for: The builder had to eat the cost of the repairs.
7. to perform cunnilingus or fellatio on.

8. to consume food; take a meal: We'll eat at six o'clock.
9. to make a way, as by gnawing or corrosion: Acid ate through the linoleum.

10. food.

11. to destroy gradually, as by erosion: For eons, the pounding waves ate away at the shoreline.
12. to have a meal at a restaurant rather than at home.
13. eat up,
• to consume wholly.
• to show enthusiasm for; take pleasure in: The audience ate up everything he said.
• to believe without question.

14. to worry, annoy, or bother: Something seems to be eating him—he's been wearing a frown all day.
15. clean (def. 51).
16. crow¹ (def. 7).
17. hog (def. 16).
18. humble pie (def. 3).
19. to eat or dine at home.
20. heart (def. 26).
21. term (def. 17).
22. word (def. 17).
23. hand (def. 50).
24. to eat so much as to strain someone's resources of food or money: A group of hungry teenagers can eat you out of house and home.
25. to thoroughly defeat, outdo, injure, etc.
26. to blanket (a sailing vessel sailing close-hauled) by sailing close on the weather side of.

1. to take into the mouth and swallow (food, etc), esp after biting and chewing
2. to destroy as if by eating
3. to use up or waste
4. to make (a hole, passage, etc) by eating or gnawing
5. to take or have (a meal or meals)
6. to include as part of one's diet
7. to cause to worry; make anxious
8. to perform cunnilingus or fellatio upon
9. I will be greatly surprised if (something happens that proves me wrong)
10. to brood or pine with grief or longing
11. to take back something said; recant; retract
12. to be entirely obedient to someone
13. to ruin someone, esp one's parent or one's host, by consuming all his food

1. Tanzania (international car registration)

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