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Ate (?; 277), the preterit of Eat.
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Ate (), n. [Gr. .] (Greek. Myth.) The goddess of mischievous folly; also, in later poets, the goddess of vengeance.
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Eat (ēt), v. t. [imp. Ate (āt; 277), Obsolescent & Colloq. Eat (ĕt); p. p. Eaten (ēt'n), Obs. or Colloq. Eat (ĕt); p. pr. & vb. n. Eating.] [OE. eten, AS. etan; akin to OS. etan, OFries. eta, D. eten, OHG. ezzan, G. essen, Icel. eta, Sw. äta, Dan. æde, Goth. itan, Ir. & Gael. ith, W. ysu, L. edere, Gr. ἔδειν, Skr. ad. √6. Cf. Etch, Fret to rub, Edible.]
1. To chew and swallow as food; to devour; -- said especially of food not liquid; as, “to eat bread”. “To eat grass as oxen.” Dan. iv. 25.
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They . . . ate the sacrifices of the dead. Ps. cvi. 28.
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The lean . . . did eat up the first seven fat kine. Gen. xli. 20.
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The lion had not eaten the carcass. 1 Kings xiii. 28.
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With stories told of many a feat,
How fairy Mab the junkets eat. Milton.
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The island princes overbold
Have eat our substance. Tennyson.
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His wretched estate is eaten up with mortgages. Thackeray.
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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.
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To eat humble pie. See under Humble. -- To eat of (partitive use). “Eat of the bread that can not waste.” Keble. -- To eat one's words, to retract what one has said. (See the Citation under Blurt.) -- To eat out, to consume completely. “Eat out the heart and comfort of it.” Tillotson. -- To eat the wind out of a vessel (Naut.), to gain slowly to windward of her.
Syn. -- To consume; devour; gnaw; corrode.
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