Definition
to eat: to consume, to feed oneself, to ingest (food)
This is an irregular verb:
I eat / I ate / I have eaten
- "He ate your legs and the sea turned dark"
- "In Montmartre, it was just you and me, working hard, every day, eating soup and making perfumes."
- "Horatio : But first we must eat."
- "We can show our guests a bit of Australia, and then eat so much that we all throw up!"
- "Horatio : Eat a hippopotamus, ride a pigeon..."
- "And what's that stuff you're eating?"
- "Horatio : ...I took her to Australia... But she was eaten by "Sharky" the shark."
- "Brian : No, Warbuckle has already eaten."
- "That would be silly to eat breakfast twice."
- "Who to hire, who to fire, who to raise, who to date, what to wear, what to eat!"
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