Eating

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Suitable for being eaten, especially without cooking: good eating apples.
  • adj. Used in the ingestion of food, as at the table: eating utensils.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. Present participle of eat.
  • adj. Suitable to be eaten without being cooked
  • n. the act of consuming food
  • n. food, comestibles
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of tasking food; the act of consuming or corroding.
  • n. Something fit to be eaten; food.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of consuming food, especially solid food.
  • n. That which may be eaten; food: as, the birds were delicious eating.
  • Corroding; caustic.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the act of consuming food
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    ingestion    intake    uptake    consumption   
    Hyponym
    degustation    omophagia    grazing    relishing    coprophagy    lunching    banqueting    browse    engorgement    tasting   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    food    eadacious    corrosive    erosive    gnawing    gastrology    consumption    corrosion    erosion    fretting   
    Verb Stem
    eat   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    beating    cheating    competing    completing    defeating    deleting    depleting    fleeting    greeting    heating