Definition of eats

"eats" in the noun sense

1. chow, chuck, eats, grub

informal terms for a meal

"eats" 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 eats

Felicity eats up circumspection. [ Proverb ]

An angler eats more than he gets. [ Proverb ]

He that eats longest lives longest. [ Proverb ]

The still sow eats up all the draff. [ Proverb ]

He eats the calf in the cow's belly. [ Proverb ]

A jade eats as much as a good horse. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He sups ill who eats up all at dinner. [ Proverb ]

The bit that one eats, no friend makes. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

What the good wife spares the cat eats. [ Proverb ]

He loves mutton well that eats the wool. [ Proverb ]

He eats in plate, but will die in irons. [ Proverb ]

He that eats the hard shall eat the ripe. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Who eats and leaves has another meal good. [ Proverb ]

As rust eats iron, so care eats the heart. [ Abbe Ricard ]

A master of straw eats a servant of steel. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The crow bewails the sheep and then eats it. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Yet is there one more cursed than they all.
That canker-worm, that monster, jealousie,
Which eats the heart and feeds upon the gall,
Turning all love's delight to misery.
Through fear of losing his felicity. [ Spenser ]

For want of thrushes the devil eats blackbirds. [ French Proverb ]

He that eats most porridge shall have most meat. [ Proverb ]

Who eats his dinner alone, must saddle his horse. [ Proverb ]

Man's heart eats all things, and is hungry still. [ Young ]

The wolf eats off the sheep that have been warned. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The chicken is the country's, but the city eats it. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Who eats his cock alone must saddle his horse alone. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

She that is ashamed to eat at table, eats in private. [ Proverb ]

He that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well. [ Proverb ]

The chickens are the country's, but the city eats them. [ Proverb ]

He that eats well and drinks well should do his duty well. [ Proverb ]

The poor man turns his cake, and another comes and eats it. [ Proverb ]

All things thrive with him; he eats silk, and voids velvet. [ Proverb ]

He that eats the king's geese shall be choked with the feathers. [ Proverb ]

The choleric drinks, the melancholic eats, the phlegmatic sleeps. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The bee from her industry in the summer eats honey all the winter. [ Proverb ]

He needs a long spoon who eats out of the same dish with the devil. [ Proverb ]

Animals feed, man eats; the man of intellect alone knows how to eat. [ Brillat-Savarin ]

Like the gardener's dog, that neither eats cabbage himself nor lets any body else. [ Proverb ]

I renounce the friend who eats what is mine with me, and what is his own by himself. [ Portuguese Proverb ]

A man that keeps riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles. [ Proverb ]

He that keeps up his riches and lives poorly, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles. [ Proverb ]

He that is proud eats up himself; pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle: and whatever praises itself but in the deed devours the deed in the praise. [ William Shakespeare ]

The herb feeds upon the juice of a good soil, and drinks in the dew of heaven as eagerly, and thrives by it as effectually, as the stalled ox that tastes everything that he eats or drinks. [ South ]

Partake or Eat? Partake, meaning to take a part of in common with others, to participate, is often affectedly used as a synonym of eat. It is correct to say that two or more persons partake of dinner, as they may partake of anything else. But, for the individual who eats alone, to say he partook of refreshments is an egregious blunder. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]

eats in Scrabble®

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

Scrabble® Letter Score: 4

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eats in Words With Friends™

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

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 4

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Words within the letters of eats

2 letter words in eats (3 words)

3 letter words in eats (7 words)

4 letter words in eats (Anagrams) (7 words)

Word Growth involving eats

Shorter words in eats

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Longer words containing eats

beats afterbeats

beats backbeats

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bleats outbleats

caveats

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feats defeats redefeats

feats defeats selfdefeats

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heats cheats outcheats

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heats deadheats

heats heatseeking

heats heatsensitive

heats heatshrink heatshrinked

heats heatshrink heatshrinker heatshrinkers

heats heatshrink heatshrinking

heats heatshrink heatshrinks

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heats heatspot heatspots

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heats wheats wheatstalk wheatstalks

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