1. to take in through the mouth as food ingest, chew, and swallow in turn
2. to destroy, consume, or waste by or as if by eating
expenses ate up the profits gadgets that eat up too much space
3. to bear the expense of take a loss on
the team was forced to eat the rest of his contract
4. to consume gradually corrode
cars eaten away by rust
5. to consume with vexation bother
what's eating you now
6. to enjoy eagerly or avidly lap —used with up
it was an amazing performance and the crowd ate it up
7. to perform fellatio or cunnilingus on —often used with out
8. to take food or a meal
9. to affect something by gradual destruction or consumption —usually used with into, away, or at
the loss was really eating at herthe controversy ate into his support
10. to defeat, conquer, or overwhelm completely crush
was eaten alive by the competition
11. to consume more than one can easily provide or afford
12. to grieve bitterly
13. to be jealous
14. to retract what one has said
15. to accept the domination of another
16. to deprive of profit, dominance, or success
17. something to eat food —usually used in plural
18. to take food into your mouth and swallow it
19. to gradually destroy, use, or take away something to wear something away
20. to bother or annoy (someone)
21. to chew and swallow food
22. to take a meal
Let's eat at home.
23. to destroy as if by eating corrode
Acids ate away the metal.
24. to consume gradually corrode