Definition of eating

"eating" in the noun sense

1. eating, feeding

the act of consuming food

"eating" in the verb sense

1. eat

take in solid food

"She was eating a banana"

"What did you eat for dinner last night?"

2. eat

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. feed, eat

take in food used of animals only

"This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat"

"What do whales eat?"

4. eat, eat on

worry or cause anxiety in a persistent way

"What's eating you?"

5. consume, eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out

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"

6. corrode, eat, rust

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"

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Quotations for eating

Unquiet meals make ill digestion. [ William Shakespeare ]

To a greedy-eating horse a short halter. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

In the sweetest bud
The eating canker dwells; so eating love
Inhabits in the finest wits of all. [ William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona,  Act I. Sc.1 ]

The proof of a pudding is in the eating. [ Proverb ]

Appetite comes with eating, says Angeston. [ Rabelais ]

A good beast will get himself a heat with eating. [ Proverb ]

Sick of the mulligrubs with eating of chopped hay. [ Proverb ]

As in some Irish houses, where things are so-so,
One gammon of bacon hangs up for a show; -
But, for eating a rasher of what they take pride in,
They'd as soon think of eating the pan it is fried in. [ Goldsmith ]

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. [ Burke ]

Much reading is like much eating, - wholly useless without digestion. [ South ]

Work, according to my feeling, is as much of a necessity to man as eating and drinking. [ Wilhelm von Humboldt ]

Such, whose sole bliss is eating, who can give but that one brutal reason why they live. [ Juvenal ]

When a man appreciates only eating and sleeping, what excellence has he over the reptiles? [ Saadi ]

That eating canker grief, with wasteful spite, preys on the rosy bloom of youth and beauty. [ Rowe ]

The bore is the same eating dates under the cedars of Lebanon as over a plate of baked beans in Beacon Street. [ O. W. Holmes ]

Atheism is the result of ignorance and pride, of strong sense and feeble reasons, of good eating and ill living. [ Jeremy Collier ]

The chief pleasure (in eating) does not consist in costly seasoning or exquisite flavor, but in yourself. Do you seek for sauce by sweating. [ Horace ]

As a man may be eating all day, and for want of digestion is never nourished, so these endless readers may cram themselves in vain with intellectual food. [ Dr. I. Watts ]

Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating, as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. [ Fuller ]

Constant companionship is not enjoyable, any more than constant eating. We sit too long at the table of friendship, when we outsit our appetites for each other's thoughts. [ Bovee ]

He was a kind and thankful toad, whose heart dilated in proportion as his skin was filled with good cheer; and whose spirits rose with eating, as some men's do with drink. [ Washington Irving ]

Thou mayst as well expect to grow stronger by always eating, as wiser by always reading. It is thought and digestion which make books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind. [ Thomas Fuller ]

Contrary to popular belief, the most dangerous animal is not the lion or tiger or even the elephant. The most dangerous animal is a shark riding on an elephant, just trampling and eating everything they see. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Contrary to what most people say, the most dangerous animal in the world is not the lion or the tiger or even the elephant. It's a shark riding on an elephant's back, just trampling and eating everything they see. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

To be always intending to live a new life, but never to find time to set about it; this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day and night to another, till he is starved and destroyed. [ Tillotson ]

If you're a Thanksgiving dinner, but you don't like the stuffing or the cranberry sauce or anything else, just pretend like you're eating it, but instead, put it all in your lap and form it into a big mushy ball. Then, later, when you're out back having cigars with the boys, let out a big fake cough and throw the ball to the ground. Then say, Boy, these are good cigars! [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

eating in Scrabble®

The word eating is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters eating:

EATING
(27)
 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word eating

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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In eating

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eating in Words With Friends™

The word eating is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters eating:

EATING
(51)
 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word eating

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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In eating

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Word Growth involving eating

Shorter words in eating

at eat

in tin ting

Longer words containing eating

ablaqueating

beating beatings browbeatings

beating beatings drumbeatings

beating browbeating browbeatings

beating crabeating

beating drumbeating drumbeatings

beating overbeating

beating underbeating

bleating bleatingly

bleating bleatings

bleating outbleating

caveating

creating cocreating

creating miscreating

creating procreating

creating recreating

defeating redefeating

defeating selfdefeating

delineating nondelineating

delineating predelineating

foveating

heating cheating outcheating

heating cheating recheating

heating fisheating

heating flesheating

heating overheating overheatings

heating reheating preheating preheatings

heating reheating reheatings preheatings

heating superheating

heating ultraheating

heating underheating

interlineating

laureating

meateating

noneating

nucleating enucleating denucleating

nucleating enucleating renucleating

overeating

permeating interpermeating

pleating repleating

repeating nonrepeating

repeating repeatings

repeating unrepeating

seating caseating

seating keyseating

seating misseating

seating multiseating

seating nauseating nauseatingly

seating nauseating nauseatingness

seating nauseating unnauseating

seating reseating

seating seatings

seating underseating

seating unseating

sweating nonsweating

treating entreating entreatingly

treating entreating misentreating

treating entreating nonentreating

treating maltreating

treating mistreating

treating overtreating

treating retreating pretreating

treating retreating retreatingness

treating retreating unretreating

treating selftreating

treating treatings

treating undertreating

undereating