eat

/iːt/

US pronunciation

American sound/iːt/

eat

Syllables: 1 syllable
Stress: One strong syllable
Vowel: Long vowel
Ending: Clear final sound

US voice -> eat

Myanmar meaning

(v) ~ (up)/~ sth (up) စားသည်။ စားသောက်သည်။ သုံးဆောင်သည်။ (infml) (esp in the continuous tenses) စိတ်ရှုပ်သည်။ စိတ်ညစ် သည်။

Full entry

eat /i:t/ v (pt ate /et; US eÇt/ pp eaten /'i:tn/)

၁။ ~ (up)/~ sth (up) စားသည်။ He was too ill to eat. ❍ Eat up (ie Finish eating) now. ❍ Eat up (ie Eat all) your dinner. ❍ Lions eat meat (ie Meat is their diet).
၂။ စားသောက်သည်။ သုံးဆောင်သည်။ Where shall we eat tonight?
၃။ (infml ) (esp in the continuous tenses) စိတ်ရှုပ်သည်။ စိတ်ညစ် သည်။ Tom's very quiet tonight—what's eating him?
❏ eatable adj စားဖွယ်။ စား၍ကောင်းသော။ စားသုံးနိုင်သော။ Our school lunches are hardly eatable. See also EDIBLE
❏ eat sb alive [IDM ] (infml )
၁။ လွှမ်းမိုးချုပ်ကိုင်သည်။ အမြတ်ထုတ်သည်။ That woman will eat him alive.
၂။ (ခြင် စသည်) သီးနေအောင်ကိုက်သည်။ I was eaten alive by mosquitoes.
❏ eat sth away/eat away at sth [PHRV ] တဖြည်းဖြည်း ပျက်ပြုန်းစေသည်။ လုံးပါးပါးစေသည်။ The river is eating away at the bank. မြစ်က ကမ်းပါးကိုတဖြည်းဖြည်း စားသွား တယ်။ ❍ new buildings eating away the character of this historic town. သမိုင်းဝင်မြို့ဟောင်းကို အဆောက်အအုံသစ် တွေက မျိုလိုက်ပြီ။
❏ eater n
၁။ စားသူ။ စားသောသတ္တဝါ။ We're not great meat-eaters. ❍ He's a big eater (ie He eats a lot).
၂။ (Brit ) = EATING APPLE
❏ eat one's heart out (for sb/sth) [IDM ] အလိုမပြည့် သဖြင့် အလွန်စိတ်ဆင်းရဲသည်။ Since he left, she's been sitting at home eating her heart out.
❏ eat (like) a horse [IDM ] (infml ) အစားကြီးသည်။ အစားပုပ်သည်။ စားနိုင်သည်။ She's very thin but she eats like a horse. ❍ I'm so hungry I could eat a horse!
❏ eat humble pie [IDM ] တိုးလျှိုးတောင်းပန်သည်။ When he realizes that I am telling the truth, he'll have to eat humble pie.
❏ eating apple n အစိမ်းစားရသောပန်းသီး။ ပန်းသီး။ Compare COOKER ၂
❏ eat into sth [PHRV ]
၁။ (အက်စစ်၊ သံချေးစသည်) စားသည်။ acid rain eating into the stone walls.
၂။ (အချိန်၊ ငွေ စသည်) စားသည်။ Paying for the new carpet has eaten into my savings.
❏ eat out [PHRV ] ဆိုင်မှာစားသည်။ အပြင်ထွက် စားသည်။ I'm too tired to cook tonight—let's eat out.
❏ eat out of one's/sb's hand [IDM ] နာခံသည်။ ဩဇာခံ သည်။ She soon had the class eating out of her hand.
❏ eat sb out of house and home [IDM ] (infml often joc ) အလကားရလျှင်၊ သူ များကျွေးလျှင် ဗိုက်ကားအောင် စားသည်။ I hope your brother won't stay much longer, he's eating us out of house and home!
❏ eats n [pl] (infml ) အသင့်စားဖွယ်၊ စားစရာ။ There were plenty of eats, but not enough to drink.
❏ eat oneself sick (on sth) [IDM ] (infml ) အီလန်သွား အောင် စားသည်။ စားပိုးနင့်အောင် စားသည်။ The children would eat themselves sick on chocolate if I let them.
❏ eat sb up [PHRV ] (usu passive) (ဝန်တိုမှု၊ အမျက် မာန်မာန စသည်၏) လွှမ်းမိုးမှုကို ခံရသည်။ be eaten up with curiosity/anger/envy ❍ Jealousy was eating him up.
❏ eat sth up [PHRV ] ကုန်သည်။ စားသည်။ This car really eats up petrol. ဒီကားတကယ်ဆီစား တယ်။ ❍ The project is eating up a third of the organization's entire research budget.
❏ eat one's words [IDM ] စကားမှားသွားကြောင်း ဝန်ခံသည်။
❏ I'll eat my hat [IDM ] (infml )(ဘယ်လိုမျှမဖြစ်နိုင် ကြောင်း ပြောလိုရာ၌သုံးသောစကား)။ Well, if that car starts, I'll eat my hat! ဒီကားစက်နှိုးလို့သာရရင် ဇက်တောင်အဖြတ်ခံလိုက်ဦး မယ်။

More examples

We sat on the grass and ate our sandwiches.
Don’t talk while you’re eating.
I’ve eaten too much.
Finish your lunch – you’ve hardly eaten anything.
Do you eat meat/fish/eggs?
I find it difficult to persuade my family to eat a healthy diet.
[eat properly/healthily/sensibly] : Many people who live alone don’t eat properly.
[eating habits/patterns] : It will take time to change your children’s eating habits.
[eat well] : We always ate well at Aunt Milly’s.
We don’t eat breakfast together, except at the weekends.
Beth ate her evening meal in the hotel.
What time shall we eat?
[eat at] : We ate at a small Chinese restaurant several streets away.
[something to eat] : Where can we get something to eat?
[a bite to eat] : Do you want to grab a bite to eat before we go?

Synonyms

consume, have, gobble, scoff, wolf, munch, chomp, devour, bolt, gorge, swallow, absorb, annoy, attack, banquet, bite, bother, break bread, breakfast, chew, chow down, condense, consume food, corrode, cram, crumble, decay, decompose, digest, dine, dining table, dinner table, disappear, disintegrate, dispatch, dispose of, dissipate, dissolve, drain, erode, exhaust, fall to, feast upon, feed, gnaw, gobble up, gormandize, graze, have a bite, have a meal, have for, ingest, inhale, liquefy, lunch, make pig of oneself, masticate, melt, nibble, nosh, partake of, peck at, pick, pig out, plague, polish off, pork out, put away, rot, ruminate, run through, rust, scarf, snack, spill, squander, sup, table, take food, take in, take nourishment, trouble, vanish, vex, waste away, worry

Antonyms

abstain, appear, arrive, build, coagulate, combine, develop, flourish, grow, hoard, improve, maintain, misunderstand, open, preserve, put together, save, solidify, unite

Cross references

consume have gobble scoff wolf munch chomp devour bolt gorge swallow absorb annoy attack banquet bite bother break bread breakfast chew chow down condense consume food corrode cram crumble decay decompose