eat

1. To ingest; to be ingested.Examples: "He's eating an apple. / Don't disturb me now; can't you see that I'm eating?"; "But meate commendeth vs not to God: for neither if we eate, are we the better: neither if wee eate not, are we the woꝛſe."; "At twilight in the summer there is never anybody to fear—man, woman, or cat—in the chambers and at that hour the mice come out. They do not eat parchment or foolscap orred tape, but they eat the luncheon crumbs."Synonyms: consume, swallowambitransitive

2. To ingest; to be ingested.Examples: "What time do we eat this evening?"; "I eat in the kitchen."Synonyms: dine, chow down, feed one's faceintransitive

3. To ingest; to be ingested.Examples: "It's a soup that eats like a meal."; "I don't know any quarter in England where you get such undeniable mutton—mutton that eats like mutton, instead of the nasty watery, stringy, turnipy stuff, neither mutton nor lamb, that other countries are inundated with."; "[D]ish him with thlitheth of orangeth, barberrieth, grapeth, goothberrieth, and butter; and you will find that he eaths deliciouthly either with farced pain or gammon pain."ergativeintransitive

4. To ingest; to be ingested.copulativeintransitive

5. To use up.Examples: "This project is eating up all the money."; "His wretched estate is eaten up with mortgages."oftentransitivewith-up

6. To use up.Examples: "A bigger problem, however, is that if you catch/eat an exception and do nothing with it, you are very likely introducing subtle bugs in your application that will be next to impossible to track down."informaltransitive