To eat a meal at home. / (UK) To eat a purchased meal on the premises where one bought it, rather than taking it away. / (of acid) To etch or erode a substance.

(nonstandard) simple past tense and past participle of eat

Obsolete spelling of eat

present participle of eat

The act of ingesting food. / (informal, dialectal) Food; cooking, cuisine. / The act of corroding or consuming some substance.

Bred to be eaten. / Suitable to be eaten without being cooked.

(colloquial) Something to be eaten; a meal; a food item.

(transitive, intransitive) To consume (something solid or semi-solid, usually food) by putting it into the mouth and swallowing it. / (intransitive) To consume a meal.

(idiomatic, vulgar) a rebuke or dismissal

To consume gradually, especially by erosion.