Usually means: Consume food for energy, nutrition.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. eat: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. EAT, eat: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. eat: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. eat: Collins English Dictionary
  5. eat: Vocabulary.com
  6. Eat, eat: Wordnik
  7. eat: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. eat: Wiktionary
  9. eat: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. eat: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. eat: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. EAT(w), EAT: Dictionary.com
  13. eat: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. eat: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. EAT, Eat (film), Eat (restaurant), Eat: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Eat: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. eat: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. eat: Rhymezone
  19. eat: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. eat: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. EAT, eat: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. Eat: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. eat: Free Dictionary
  24. eat: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. eat: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. eat: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  27. Eat (band): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. eat: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. eat: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Eat: MedFriendly Glossary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. eat: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. EAT(w), EAT: Acronym Finder
  2. EAT: Three Letter Words with definitions
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. eat: Idioms

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. eat, eat: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. eat: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Eat: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  4. E.A.T: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To ingest; to be ingested.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To consume (something solid or semi-solid, usually food) by putting it into the mouth and swallowing it.
verb:  (intransitive) To consume a meal.
verb:  (intransitive, ergative) To be eaten.
verb:  (copulative, intransitive) To have a particular quality of diet; to be well-fed or underfed (typically as "eat healthy" or "eat good").
verb:  To use up.
verb:  (transitive, often with up) To destroy, consume, or use up.
verb:  (transitive, programming, informal) To consume (an exception, an event, etc.) so that other parts of the program do not receive it.
verb:  (transitive, informal, of a device) To damage, destroy, or fail to eject a removable part or an inserted object.
verb:  (transitive, informal, of a vending machine or similar device) To consume money (or other instruments of value, such as a token) deposited or inserted by a user, while failing to either provide the intended product or service or return the payment.
verb:  (transitive, informal) To cause (someone) to worry.
verb:  (transitive, business) To take the loss in a transaction.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To be injured or killed by (something such as a firearm or its projectile), especially in the mouth.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To corrode or erode.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To perform oral sex (on a person or body part).
verb:  (stative, slang) To be very good; to rule; to rock.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To annex.
noun:  (colloquial) Something to be eaten; a meal; a food item.

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