eat
[i:t]
vt. 吃, 腐蚀

vi. 吃, 腐蚀

1. The Chinese eat with chopsticks.
   筷吃饭。
2. Since he left, she's been sitting at home eating her heart out.
   走後，她坐里，割。
3. Paying for that new carpet has eaten into my savings.
   付新毯款去储蓄。

eat
ate, eaten
[ verb ]

1. take in solid food

<verb.consumption>
She was eating a banana
What did you eat for dinner last night?

2. eat a meal; take a meal

<verb.consumption>
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

3. take in food; used of animals only

<verb.consumption> feed
This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat
What do whales eat?

4. worry or cause anxiety in a persistent way

<verb.emotion> eat on
What's eating you?

5. use up (resources or materials)

<verb.consumption> consume deplete eat up exhaust run through use up wipe out
this car consumes a lot of gas
We exhausted our savings
They run through 20 bottles of wine a week

6. cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid

<verb.change> corrode rust
The acid corroded the metal
The steady dripping of water rusted the metal stopper in the sink

Eat \Eat\ ([=e]t), v. t. [imp. {Ate} ([=a]t; 277), Obsolescent &
Colloq. {Eat} ([e^]t); p. p. {Eaten} ([=e]t"'n), Obs. or
Colloq. {Eat} ([e^]t); p. pr. & vb. n. {Eating}.] [OE. eten,
AS. etan; akin to OS. etan, OFries. eta, D. eten, OHG. ezzan,
G. essen, Icel. eta, Sw. ["a]ta, Dan. [ae]de, Goth. itan, Ir.
& Gael. ith, W. ysu, L. edere, Gr. 'e`dein, Skr. ad. [root]6.
Cf. {Etch}, {Fret} to rub, {Edible}.]
1. To chew and swallow as food; to devour; -- said especially
of food not liquid; as, to eat bread. ``To eat grass as
oxen.'' --Dan. iv. 25.

They . . . ate the sacrifices of the dead. --Ps.
cvi. 28.

The lean . . . did eat up the first seven fat kine.
--Gen. xli.
20.

The lion had not eaten the carcass. --1 Kings
xiii. 28.

With stories told of many a feat,
How fairy Mab the junkets eat. --Milton.

The island princes overbold
Have eat our substance. --Tennyson.

His wretched estate is eaten up with mortgages.
--Thackeray.

2. To corrode, as metal, by rust; to consume the flesh, as a
cancer; to waste or wear away; to destroy gradually; to
cause to disappear.

{To eat humble pie}. See under {Humble}.

{To eat of} (partitive use). ``Eat of the bread that can not
waste.'' --Keble.

{To eat one's words}, to retract what one has said. (See the
Citation under {Blurt}.)

{To eat out}, to consume completely. ``Eat out the heart and
comfort of it.'' --Tillotson.

{To eat the wind out of a vessel} (Naut.), to gain slowly to
windward of her.

Syn: To consume; devour; gnaw; corrode.


Eat \Eat\ ([=e]t), v. t. [imp. {Ate} ([=a]t; 277), Obsolescent &
Colloq. {Eat} ([e^]t); p. p. {Eaten} ([=e]t"'n), Obs. or
Colloq. {Eat} ([e^]t); p. pr. & vb. n. {Eating}.] [OE. eten,
AS. etan; akin to OS. etan, OFries. eta, D. eten, OHG. ezzan,
G. essen, Icel. eta, Sw. ["a]ta, Dan. [ae]de, Goth. itan, Ir.
& Gael. ith, W. ysu, L. edere, Gr. 'e`dein, Skr. ad. [root]6.
Cf. {Etch}, {Fret} to rub, {Edible}.]
1. To chew and swallow as food; to devour; -- said especially
of food not liquid; as, to eat bread. ``To eat grass as
oxen.'' --Dan. iv. 25.

They . . . ate the sacrifices of the dead. --Ps.
cvi. 28.

The lean . . . did eat up the first seven fat kine.
--Gen. xli.
20.

The lion had not eaten the carcass. --1 Kings
xiii. 28.

With stories told of many a feat,
How fairy Mab the junkets eat. --Milton.

The island princes overbold
Have eat our substance. --Tennyson.

His wretched estate is eaten up with mortgages.
--Thackeray.

2. To corrode, as metal, by rust; to consume the flesh, as a
cancer; to waste or wear away; to destroy gradually; to
cause to disappear.

{To eat humble pie}. See under {Humble}.

{To eat of} (partitive use). ``Eat of the bread that can not
waste.'' --Keble.

{To eat one's words}, to retract what one has said. (See the
Citation under {Blurt}.)

{To eat out}, to consume completely. ``Eat out the heart and
comfort of it.'' --Tillotson.

{To eat the wind out of a vessel} (Naut.), to gain slowly to
windward of her.

Syn: To consume; devour; gnaw; corrode.


Eat \Eat\ ([=e]t), v. t. [imp. {Ate} ([=a]t; 277), Obsolescent &
Colloq. {Eat} ([e^]t); p. p. {Eaten} ([=e]t"'n), Obs. or
Colloq. {Eat} ([e^]t); p. pr. & vb. n. {Eating}.] [OE. eten,
AS. etan; akin to OS. etan, OFries. eta, D. eten, OHG. ezzan,
G. essen, Icel. eta, Sw. ["a]ta, Dan. [ae]de, Goth. itan, Ir.
& Gael. ith, W. ysu, L. edere, Gr. 'e`dein, Skr. ad. [root]6.
Cf. {Etch}, {Fret} to rub, {Edible}.]
1. To chew and swallow as food; to devour; -- said especially
of food not liquid; as, to eat bread. ``To eat grass as
oxen.'' --Dan. iv. 25.

They . . . ate the sacrifices of the dead. --Ps.
cvi. 28.

The lean . . . did eat up the first seven fat kine.
--Gen. xli.
20.

The lion had not eaten the carcass. --1 Kings
xiii. 28.

With stories told of many a feat,
How fairy Mab the junkets eat. --Milton.

The island princes overbold
Have eat our substance. --Tennyson.

His wretched estate is eaten up with mortgages.
--Thackeray.

2. To corrode, as metal, by rust; to consume the flesh, as a
cancer; to waste or wear away; to destroy gradually; to
cause to disappear.

{To eat humble pie}. See under {Humble}.

{To eat of} (partitive use). ``Eat of the bread that can not
waste.'' --Keble.

{To eat one's words}, to retract what one has said. (See the
Citation under {Blurt}.)

{To eat out}, to consume completely. ``Eat out the heart and
comfort of it.'' --Tillotson.

{To eat the wind out of a vessel} (Naut.), to gain slowly to
windward of her.

Syn: To consume; devour; gnaw; corrode.


Eat \Eat\, v. i.
1. To take food; to feed; especially, to take solid, in
distinction from liquid, food; to board.

He did eat continually at the king's table. --2 Sam.
ix. 13.

2. To taste or relish; as, it eats like tender beef.

3. To make one's way slowly.

{To eat}, {To eat in} or {To eat into}, to make way by
corrosion; to gnaw; to consume. ``A sword laid by, which
eats into itself.'' --Byron.

{To eat to windward} (Naut.), to keep the course when
closehauled with but little steering; -- said of a vessel.