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# eat

«eat» in Mova's school dictionary: **to put food in your mouth, chew it and swallow it** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (eat, eats, ate, eaten, eating)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To eat is to put food in your mouth, chew it and swallow it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eat/#m1)

2) To eat a meal is to have it: we eat dinner at six. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eat/#m2)

3) To eat into or eat away something is to slowly use it up or damage it: rust eats away metal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eat/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

food eaten is gone («Tom ate 1 of them» = subtract); in everyday life healthy eating, meals, «eat up», «eat out» (at a restaurant); in science animals that eat plants (herbivores) and eat meat (carnivores), food chains; in safety do not eat berries you do not know

### examples

- I eat three plums from the table. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eat/#x1)
- There were 9 apples. Tom ate 1 of them. How many apples are left? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eat/#x2)
- Ravi ate 4 of the 12 grapes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eat/#x3)
- We eat lunch at twelve. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eat/#x4)
- Eat your vegetables; they help you grow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eat/#x5)
- Cows eat grass. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eat/#x6)
- Never eat wild mushrooms or berries without asking an adult. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eat/#x7)
- Let's eat out tonight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eat/#x8)
- "Then eat heartily," said the Barmecide. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eat/#x9)

### note

Eating makes things disappear: subtract. Trap: «how many did he eat» may ask for the part eaten, found from the start and what is left. Past «ate», past participle «eaten»: «I ate», «I have eaten».

### In the corpora

- [Diabetes is not caused by eating one too many sweets, and with care people with diabetes live normal lives.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/23-when-grandma-and-grandad-need-more-help/8/)
- ["I'm being good today" about food is just a phrase; eating a biscuit does not make anyone bad.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/29-screens-diets-sofas-and-late-nights/10/)
- [Vivid example: in a kitchen in Cork, Mum watches the breakfast show while Oscar eats his cereal.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/53-breakfast-and-chat-shows-celebrity-gossip-on-the-sofa/3/)
- [Some wild mushrooms are deadly poisonous; never eat one because a bot, a website or a friend says it is fine.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/7-pretend-games-quotes-and-two-bots/17/)
- [Many sharks are endangered because they grow slowly and have few young, and they keep oceans healthy by eating sick fish.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/28-sharks/18/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «eat» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eat/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.