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Synonyms & Antonyms of eat
- having gone all day without food, we greedily ate the hamburgers
Synonyms for eat
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- bolt,
- chow (down on),
- devour,
- glut (on),
- gobble (up or down),
- gorge,
- gulp,
- scoff,
- slop,
- snarf (down),
- swill,
- wolf
- chew,
- gnaw (at or on),
- gum,
- lap,
- lick,
- nibble (on),
- nurse,
- pick (at)
- the pot's protective coating was eaten away by the acid
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- where's the best place to eat in this town?
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- it really eats me the way people go to national parks to enjoy nature—and then leave their litter behind
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- agitate,
- discomfort,
- discompose,
- disquiet,
- distress,
- exercise,
- freak (out),
- fret,
- perturb,
- undo,
- unhinge,
- unsettle,
- upset,
- worry
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“Eat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eat. Accessed 4 Mar. 2021.
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The first known use of eat was before the 12th century
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