v
(transitive) To suck up; to drink in; to imbibe, like a sponge or as the lacteals of the body; to chemically take in.
v
(obsolete) To absorb, swallow up
n
(obsolete) engulfing; swallowing up, as of bodies or land.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To consume gradually; to waste away.
n
(medicine) Chiefly used by nurses: the act of defecation by a patient.
n
The action of aspirating.
v
(transitive) To improve by feeding; fatten; make fat or cause to thrive due to plenteous feeding.
v
(transitive) to chew so as to make something pulpy
v
(intransitive) To eat greedily, and to satiety; to stuff oneself.
v
To rapidly destroy, engulf, or lay waste.
n
The act of devouring something.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To dine upon; to have to eat.
v
(archaic, intransitive) To go without dinner.
v
To erode or corrode gradually.
v
(of acid) To etch or erode a substance.
v
To consume gradually, especially by erosion.
v
(obsolete) To study for the bar (to become a lawyer).
v
To eat to one's satisfaction, until full. (This entry is a translation hub.)
v
(transitive) To erode or encroach upon by gradually consuming.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To consume completely.
v
(transitive, idiomatic, informal) To devote one's time obsessively to.
v
Obsolete spelling of eat [(transitive, intransitive) To consume (something solid or semi-solid, usually food) by putting it into the mouth and swallowing it.]
n
(cellular automata) A configuration of cells that appears to consume another configuration by gradually causing it to disappear.
v
(obsolete) To pass food into the stomach; to digest; also figuratively, to take on, absorb.
v
(intransitive) To feed ravenously.
v
(transitive) To cast into a gulf.
v
(figuratively) To destroy gradually by an ongoing process.
v
(dialectal or colloquial) Alternative form of eaten, past participle of eat
v
(figuratively, by extension) To consume, to devour, to bite, to chew over.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To swallow up; devour utterly; engulf.
v
(by extension, figuratively) To continually absorb or expand through annexation.
v
(transitive) To consume or use up (a particular substance or resource, especially food or drink).
v
(figuratively) To take in; absorb.
n
The taking up of fluid from the environment.
v
Alternative form of endue [(obsolete) To pass food into the stomach; to digest; also figuratively, to take on, absorb.]
v
(transitive) To take (a substance, e.g., food) into the body of an organism, especially through the mouth and into the gastrointestinal tract.
v
(rare) Of many people, creatures etc.: to devour each other.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To draw in; to swallow.
v
(transitive) To empty (something) by eating its contents.
v
(by extension, informal, transitive) To consume voraciously.
v
(by extension, figuratively) To ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means.
v
(rare, intransitive) To eat badly or wrongly; to make poor dietary choices.
v
(transitive) To eat more than.
n
The infrastructure for the removal of waste material.
v
(intransitive) To eat more than is necessary.
v
(transitive) To ingest by pinocytosis.
adj
Alternative form of pushing up daisies [(euphemistic) Dead.]
v
(transitive) To devour with great eagerness.
v
(transitive) To lick again.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To cause to be swallowed up or buried (like the biblical city of Sodom, as a punishment).
v
(transitive, informal) To be given an experience of eating sushi.
v
(transitive) To take (something) in so that it disappears; to consume, absorb.
v
To voraciously consume resources, such as money; to devour.
n
(figuratively) A potentially dangerous situation.
v
To absorb, as food or a drug by an organism.
v
(informal, slang) To consume or to eat within the context of vorarephilia.
v
(intransitive) To cease to depend on the mother's milk for nutrition.
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