meaning of eat
1. To chew and swallow as food; to devour; -- said especially of food not liquid; as, to eat bread.
2. To corrode, as metal, by rust; to consume the flesh, as a cancer; to waste or wear away; to destroy gradually; to cause to disappear.
3. To take food; to feed; especially, to take solid, in distinction from liquid, food; to board.
4. To taste or relish; as, it eats like tender beef.
5. To make ones way slowly.
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8. 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
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