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EAT

eat - v 
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" 

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Synonyms

consume, ingest, partake (of), put away, put down, tuck (away or in)

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Examples

“He won't need to destroy ME, for if I don't get something to eat pretty soon I shall starve to death, and so save him the trouble.”

“After a nice warm bath and a night's sleep, she stopped in the hotel restaurant to eat breakfast.”

“We are quite solid inside our bodies, and have no need to eat, any more than does a potato.”

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Etymology

Old English etan (class V strong verb; past tense æt, past participle eten) "to consume food, devour, consume," from Proto-Germanic *etan (source also of Old Frisian ita, Old Saxon etan, Middle Dutch eten, Dutch eten, Old High German ezzan, German essen, Old Norse eta, Gothic itan), from PIE root *ed- "to eat."

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