How to Spell eat

eat

eat - verb

  • To take in through the mouth as food : ingest, chew, and swallow in turn
  • To destroy, consume, or waste by or as if by eating
  • To bear the expense of : take a loss on
  • To consume gradually : corrode
Source: Merriam-Webster Dictionary API
"Marketing expenses were eating into the profits."

Etymology

Middle English eten, from Old English etan; akin to Old High German ezzan to eat, Latin edere, Greek edmenai

Common misspellings

eet

Word family

eats, eating, ate, eaten

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