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Eats

noun

1.

Informal terms for a meal. Synonyms: chow, chuck, grub.

Eat

verb

(past ate, obs. or colloq. eat; past part. eaten, obs. or colloq. eat; pres. part. eating)

1.

Take in solid food. "What did you eat for dinner last night?"

2.

Eat a meal; take a meal. "I didn't eat yet, so I gladly accept your invitation"

3.

Take in food; used of animals only. Synonym: feed. "What do whales eat?"

4.

Worry or cause anxiety in a persistent way. Synonym: eat on.

5.

Use up (resources or materials). Synonyms: consume, deplete, eat up, exhaust, run through, use up, wipe out. "We exhausted our savings" , "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week"

6.

Cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid. Synonyms: corrode, rust. "The steady dripping of water rusted the metal stopper in the sink"

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"Eats" Quotes from Famous Books

... appeared very indignant at this; but when Kapoiolani offered them food they gladly partook of it, the priestess of Pele herself joining in the feast. Kapoiolani pointed her out to her people, remarking, "If she were a goddess she would not require food; but see, she eats ...

— The Voyage of the "Steadfast" - The Young Missionaries in the Pacific • W.H.G. Kingston

... does it mean?" demanded Graydon. "Mean! Why, good Lord, man, nobody ever eats at these damned dinners. They CAN'T eat. They're sick of dinners. That crowd out there takes tea and things at five or six o'clock. They wouldn't any more think of eating anything at a dinner after the caviar and oysters than you'd ...

— Jane Cable • George Barr McCutcheon

... whom he likes, to lecture people without setting himself up against them, to impose his authority on them without humiliating them, and to interfere in their business without impertinence. His well-spring of spiritual enthusiasm and sympathetic emotion has never run dry for a moment: he still eats and sleeps heartily enough to win the daily battle between exhaustion and recuperation triumphantly. Withal, a great baby, pardonably vain of his powers and unconsciously pleased with himself. He has a healthy complexion, ...

— Candida • George Bernard Shaw

... by their initiated followers. These sages decided to conquer the world peacefully for Zion, by the cunning of the symbolic snake. The head of the snake represents the sages of Zion, and the body—the Judaean nation. Crawling into the bosoms of governments, this snake undermines eats away all non-Judaean governmental forces, as they grow on various continents, but especially in Europe, which it is to do also in the future, carefully following the outlined plan, until the cycle of the road travelled by it is completed by the return of the head of ...

— The History of a Lie - 'The Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion' • Herman Bernstein

... things. Being run offen the reservations thataway ain't nowise pleasant, to begin with, and then havin' to hang around the aidges for what grub their folks sees fit for to sneak out to 'em ought to make it jest that much more monotonous—kind of. Reckon I'd break out myself—like a man that eats pancakes a lot—under sich circumstances. Zeke says this band—the latest gang to git sore—is a-headin' dead south. Talks like we might run agin trouble down there. More'n one brand, too—the police and the reg'lars all bein' out thataway. They're ...

— Bred of the Desert - A Horse and a Romance • Marcus Horton

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