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Nouns (0)

Verbs (12)

v. 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"

eat, take in

v. take in solid food; "She was eating a banana"; "What did you eat for dinner last night?"

eat, eat on

v. worry or cause anxiety in a persistent way; "What's eating you?"

rust, corrode, eat, cause to rust

v. 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"

feed, eat, take in food

v. take in food; used of animals only; "This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat"; "What do whales eat?"

Adverbs (1)

intermittently

adv. in an intermittent manner; "intermittently we questioned the barometer"

Adjectives (0)

Fuzzynyms (4)

decay

v. undergo decay or decomposition; "The body started to decay and needed to be cremated"

decay, decompose, disintegrate

v. lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current; "the particles disintegrated during the nuclear fission process"

Synonyms (14)

nibble, eat at, bite at

v. bite off very small pieces; "She nibbled on her cracker"

run through, exhaust, wipe out, consume, deplete, run out of, use up, eat into

v. 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"

prey on, profit from, feed off

v. profit from

Antonyms (4)

assuage, slake, quench, allay

v. satisfy (thirst); "The cold water quenched his thirst"

eat intermittently

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