Synset

take in solid food
<verb.consumption> freq. cnt.: 61 freq. cnt.: 61

eat

sample sentences

"She was eating a banana"
"What did you eat for dinner last night?"

verb frames

Somebody ----s something
They %s more bread

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

eating eater eater

semantic pointers

hypernym

have, take, consume, ingest, take in eat

verb group

hyponym

wash down gluttonize, gluttonise, fress wolf, wolf down slurp fare pick at, peck at, peck peck, pick up gobble, bolt garbage down, gobble up, shovel in, bolt down nibble, pick, piece ruminate devour, guttle, raven, pig eat up, finish, polish off fill, fill up

entailment

chew, masticate, manducate, jaw swallow, get down