eat
verb (used with object)
to take into the mouth and swallow for nourishment; chew and swallow (food).
eater
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a word derived from
eat.
Example Sentences
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His goal was to make burgers large enough to require two hands, and good enough to make the eater exclaim “What a burger.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
As a finicky eater who happens to be queer, Black and disabled, I wouldn’t touch durian, duck tongues or most of the basket items on the Food Network TV show, “Chopped.”
From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2026
Edmontosaurus was a large duck-billed plant eater that lived alongside Tyrannosaurus rex near the end of the Cretaceous Period.
From Science Daily ● May 14, 2026
One of the youngest sweet tooths is Matilda, six, who helped her mum Jasmin Gelsana, 36, decorate a store-bought cake, and who happily admits: "I'm a good eater, not a baker".
From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2026
And it was for moral reasons and sporting interest that she left her school and her home to compete with a man whose fame as a great, unprincipled eater had spread throughout the country.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
