Eat

Definition

eat /i:t/ v ( pt ate /et; US eÇt/ pp eaten /'i:tn/) ၁။ ~ (up)/~ sth (up) စားသည္။ 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။ စားေသာက္သည္။ သံုးေဆာင္သည္။ Where shall we eat tonight? ၃။ ( infml ) (esp in the continuous tenses) စိတ္႐ႈပ္သည္။ စိတ္ညစ္ သည္။ Tom's very quiet tonight—what's eating him? ❏ eatable adj စားဖြယ္။ စား၍ေကာင္းေသာ။ စားသံုးႏိုင္ေသာ။ Our school lunches are hardly eatable. See also EDIBLE ❏ eat sb alive [ IDM ] ( infml ) ၁။ လႊမ္းမိုးခ်ဳပ္ကိုင္သည္။ အျမတ္ထုတ္သည္။ That woman will eat him alive. ၂။ (ျခင္ စသည္) သီးေနေအာင္ကိုက္သည္။ I was eaten alive by mosquitoes. ❏ eat sth away/eat away at sth [ PHRV ] တျဖည္းျဖည္း ပ်က္ျပဳန္းေစသည္။ လံုးပါးပါးေစသည္။ The river is eating away at the bank. ျမစ္က ကမ္းပါးကိုတျဖည္းျဖည္း စားသြား တယ္။ ❍ new buildings eating away the character of this historic town. သမိုင္းဝင္ၿမိဳ႕ေဟာင္းကို အေဆာက္အအံုသစ္ ေတြက မ်ဳိလိုက္ၿပီ။ ❏ eater n ၁။ စားသူ။ စားေသာသတၱဝါ။ 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 ] အလိုမျပည့္ သျဖင့္ အလြန္စိတ္ဆင္းရဲသည္။ Since he left, she's been sitting at home eating her heart out. ❏ eat (like) a horse [ IDM ] ( infml ) အစားႀကီးသည္။ အစားပုပ္သည္။ စားႏိုင္သည္။ She's very thin but she eats like a horse. ❍ I'm so hungry I could eat a horse! ❏ eat humble pie [ IDM ] တိုးလွ်ဳိးေတာင္းပန္သည္။ When he realizes that I am telling the truth, he'll have to eat humble pie. ❏ eating apple n အစိမ္းစားရေသာပန္းသီး။ ပန္းသီး။ Compare COOKER ၂ ❏ eat into sth [ PHRV ] ၁။ (အက္စစ္၊ သံေခ်းစသည္) စားသည္။ acid rain eating into the stone walls. ၂။ (အခ်ိန္၊ ေငြ စသည္) စားသည္။ Paying for the new carpet has eaten into my savings. ❏ eat out [ PHRV ] ဆိုင္မွာစားသည္။ အျပင္ထြက္ စားသည္။ I'm too tired to cook tonight—let's eat out. ❏ eat out of one's/sb's hand [ IDM ] နာခံသည္။ ဩဇာခံ သည္။ She soon had the class eating out of her hand. ❏ eat sb out of house and home [ IDM ] ( infml often joc ) အလကားရလွ်င္၊ သူ မ်ားေကြၽးလွ်င္ ဗိုက္ကားေအာင္ စားသည္။ I hope your brother won't stay much longer, he's eating us out of house and home! ❏ eats n [pl] ( infml ) အသင့္စားဖြယ္၊ စားစရာ။ There were plenty of eats, but not enough to drink. ❏ eat oneself sick (on sth) [ IDM ] ( infml ) အီလန္သြား ေအာင္ စားသည္။ စားပိုးနင့္ေအာင္ စားသည္။ The children would eat themselves sick on chocolate if I let them. ❏ eat sb up [ PHRV ] (usu passive) (ဝန္တိုမႈ၊ အမ်က္ မာန္မာန စသည္၏) လႊမ္းမိုးမႈကို ခံရသည္။ be eaten up with curiosity/anger/envy ❍ Jealousy was eating him up. ❏ eat sth up [ PHRV ] ကုန္သည္။ စားသည္။ This car really eats up petrol. ဒီကားတကယ္ဆီစား တယ္။ ❍ The project is eating up a third of the organization's entire research budget. ❏ eat one's words [ IDM ] စကားမွားသြားေၾကာင္း ဝန္ခံသည္။ ❏ I'll eat my hat [ IDM ] ( infml )(ဘယ္လိုမွ်မျဖစ္ႏိုင္ ေၾကာင္း ေျပာလိုရာ၌သံုးေသာစကား)။ Well, if that car starts, I'll eat my hat! ဒီကားစက္ႏိႈးလို႔သာရရင္ ဇက္ေတာင္အျဖတ္ခံလိုက္ဦး မယ္။

Examples

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