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1. 吃
When you eat something, you put it into your mouth, chew it, and swallow it.
2. (合理或健康地)饮食
If you eat sensibly or healthily, you eat food that is good for you.
3. 用餐;吃饭
If you eat, you have a meal.
4. 使不安;使焦虑
If something is eating you, it is annoying or worrying you.
5. 完全听命于;完全受…支配
If you have someone eating out of your hand, they are completely under your control.
6. 比…还要厉害;令…妒忌
People use eat your heart out with the name of a person when they are doing something that they think the person named might be jealous of.
7. (尤指客人)把…吃穷
If you eat someone out of house and home, you eat a lot of their food, especially when you are living with them.
8. to be eaten alive - see alive
to have your cake and eat it - see cake
dog eat dog - see dog
to eat humble pie - see humble
1. cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid
e.g. The acid corroded the metal
The steady dripping of water rusted the metal stopper in the sink
2. use up (resources or materials)
e.g. this car consumes a lot of gas
We exhausted our savings
They run through 20 bottles of wine a week
Synonym: consumeeat upuse updepleteexhaustrun throughwipe out
3. eat a meal
take a meal
e.g. 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
4. take in solid food
e.g. She was eating a banana
What did you eat for dinner last night?
5. take in food
used of animals only
e.g. This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat
What do whales eat?
Synonym: feed
6. worry or cause anxiety in a persistent way
e.g. What's eating you?
Synonym: eat on