eating

Speech parts

1. eating - Noun

2. eating - Adjective

3. eating - Verb

Meaning

of Eat

The act of tasking food; the act of consuming or corroding.

Something fit to be eaten; food; as, a peach is good eating.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

feeding dining consuming consumption chewing feasting devouring lunching munching nibbling gobbling Snacking ingesting dietetic food
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Antonyms

build FAST pleasing abstain soothing herbivorous
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Hypernyms

consumption intake uptake ingestion

Hyponyms

banqueting relishing degustation dining bite grazing

Phrases with the word

good eating appetite comes with eating crab-eating zorro eating psychopathology grain-eating I'm eating

Anagrams

ingate giante tagine tangie

Examples

No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention. Christopher Morley

I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts. Orson Welles

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. Edmund Burke

A poor man is hungry after eating. Portuguese Proverb

Eating and scratching want but a beginning. Romanian Proverb

Eating much of sweetness you do not know if it be sweet anymore. Tibetan Proverb

Close letter words and terms

eathlins eathly eathy eating a lot more eating a mixed diet eating a varied diet