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Meaning of eat

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  eat
      v 1: take in solid food; "She was eating a banana"; "What did
           you eat for dinner last night?"
      2: eat a meal; take a meal; "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"
      3: take in food; used of animals only; "This dog doesn't eat
         certain kinds of meat"; "What do whales eat?" [syn: {feed},
         {eat}]
      4: worry or cause anxiety in a persistent way; "What's eating
         you?" [syn: {eat}, {eat on}]
      5: use up (resources or materials); "this car consumes a lot of
         gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20
         bottles of wine a week" [syn: {consume}, {eat up}, {use up},
         {eat}, {deplete}, {exhaust}, {run through}, {wipe out}]
      6: cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an
         acid; "The acid corroded the metal"; "The steady dripping of
         water rusted the metal stopper in the sink" [syn: {corrode},
         {eat}, {rust}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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