EATS Synonyms: 245 Similar and Opposite Words

eats 1 of 2

plural noun

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as in food

substances intended to be eaten there are some good eats at the buffet table

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2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of eat

as in consumes

to take in as food having gone all day without food, we greedily ate the hamburgers

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as in erodes

to consume or wear away gradually the pot's protective coating was eaten away by the acid

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as in dines

to take a meal where's the best place to eat in this town?

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diets
fasts

as in annoys

to disturb the peace of mind of (someone) especially by repeated disagreeable acts it really eats me the way people go to national parks to enjoy nature—and then leave their litter behind

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The kitchen of the restaurant is crawling with maggots, the damp eats away at the tatami mats and wallpaper decorated with a design of a forest landscape. —

Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, ARTnews.com, 6 Apr. 2026 Often apologizing in between bites, Beard, 40, eats savagely with his hands, squeezing food and mashing it into his mouth. —

Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 6 Apr. 2026 In fact, some of the most nutritious and budget-friendly vegetables your family eats every week actually perform better with less sunlight. —

Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Apr. 2026 In a more general sense, a carnivore is any animal (or plant; see carnivorous plant) that eats other animals, as opposed to a herbivore, which eats plants. —

Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026 What a gastroenterologist eats for breakfast On regular days. —

Sara Moniuszko, USA Today, 2 Apr. 2026 For anyone who eats outdoors along Miami-Dade’s coastline, the findings offer a new way to understand the gulls circling overhead. —

Samantha Agate, Miami Herald, 30 Mar. 2026 Because of that, Moody’s has taken a number of downward ratings actions against producers, because the oversupply eats away at margins and the capacity to pay debt is eroding. —

Kevin Williams, CNBC, 28 Mar. 2026 An unbothered gray cat eats while resting on a kitchen mat, not having yet noticed the still cucumber behind his tail. —

Andrés Muedano, JSTOR Daily, 25 Mar. 2026

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But still, global supply is running well short of the roughly 104 million barrels per day the world consumes.

— Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 6 Apr. 2026
The average American consumes more than 200 pounds of meat annually, and that amount is growing.

— Andrew Zaleski, The Atlantic, 30 Mar. 2026