eat
To ingest.
Verb 4 meanings
To ingest.
“He's eating an apple.”
To be ingested.
“It's a soup that eats like a meal.”
To be savored or enjoyed; to taste in a specified way.
“It's an unattractive dish, but it eats pretty good.”
To use up.
“This project is eating up all the money.”
Noun 1 meaning
Something to be eaten; a meal; a food item.
Etymology
From Middle English eten, from Old English etan (“to eat”), from Proto-West Germanic *etan, from Proto-Germanic *etaną (“to eat”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁édti, from *h₁ed- (“to eat”).
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EAT at a glance
EAT has 3 letters and scores 3 points in Scrabble (E 1 + A 1 + T 1) and 3 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #731 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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