eat

Từ điển tiếng Anh - Cambridge Advanced Learners Dictionary

eat UK US [iːt] [ ate ], [ eaten ] verb intransitive or transitive [ ate eaten eats eating ]
<E > to put or take food into the mouth, chew (= crush with the teeth) it, and swallow it
• Do you eat meat?
• When I've got a cold, I don't feel like eating.
• We usually eat (= have a meal) at about 7 o'clock.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Eating ↑Biting, chewing and swallowing
 
• I don't eat meat and my husband doesn't either.
• How many pieces of fresh fruit do you eat in a day?
• Jane never eats breakfast.
• I offered him a biscuit and he ate the whole plateful.
• He paused for a moment to listen and then continued eating.
Idioms: , I could eat a horse ▪ I'll eat my hat ▪ What's eating somebody? ▪ eat humble pie ▪ eat like a horse ▪ eat somebody alive ▪ eat somebody for breakfast ▪ eat somebody out of house and home ▪ eat your heart out ▪ eat your words ▪ eaten up by something ▪ have somebody eating out of your hand
Phrasal Verbs: eat away at somebody ▪ eat away at something ▪ eat in ▪ eat into something ▪ eat out ▪ eat up ▪ eat up something

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  corrode, rust, consume, eat up, use up, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out, eat on, feed