eat: translation
verb
ADVERB
▪ well
▪ We ate very well most of the time (= had lots of nice food).
▪ a lot, enough, too much
▪ He's not eating enough.
▪ healthfully (AmE), healthily, properly, sensibly
▪ I'm trying to eat more healthily.
▪ She doesn't eat sensibly (= doesn't eat food that is good for her).
▪ poorly
▪ hungrily, ravenously
▪ heartily
▪ sparingly
▪ Barton did not feel very hungry and ate sparingly.
▪ barely, hardly
▪ He'd barely eaten any breakfast.
▪ quickly, slowly
▪ in silence, quietly, silently
▪ happily
▪ Everyone happily ate the huge meal.
▪ alone, together
VERB + EAT
▪ find sth to, get (yourself) sth to, grab sth to, have sth to
▪ Do you have anything to eat?
▪ have enough to
▪ try and, try to
▪ Try and eat something.It will do you good.
PHRASES
▪ a bite to eat (= some food)
▪ Do you want to grab a bite to eat?
▪ eat and drink
▪ Go and get yourself something to eat and drink.
▪ eat like a horse (= eat a lot)
▪ She's very thin but she eats like a horse!
▪ eat sb out of house and home
▪ He's eating us out of house and home (= eating a lot of our food).
▪ go eat (esp. AmE)
▪ good enough to eat (figurative)
▪ You look good enough to eat!
▪ go out to eat
▪ We went out to eat for a Chinese New Year celebration.
▪ a place to eat (= a cafe or restaurant)
▪ Are you looking for a place to eat?
▪ sit down to eat
▪ We eventually sat down to eat at 8.30 p.m.
Eat is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑lion
Eat is used with these nouns as the object: ↑apple, ↑avocado, ↑banana, ↑beef, ↑berry, ↑biscuit, ↑bowl, ↑bun, ↑cake, ↑calorie, ↑candy, ↑carbohydrate, ↑carrot, ↑cereal, ↑chicken, ↑chip, ↑chop, ↑coconut, ↑corn, ↑crisp, ↑cuisine, ↑dessert, ↑diet, ↑dish, ↑fat, ↑feast, ↑fish, ↑flesh, ↑food, ↑fruit, ↑grape, ↑grass, ↑ham, ↑helping, ↑ice cream, ↑jelly, ↑lunch, ↑meat, ↑morsel, ↑mouthful, ↑orange, ↑pasta, ↑pea, ↑portion, ↑potato, ↑produce, ↑ration, ↑salad, ↑salmon, ↑sandwich, ↑sausage, ↑seafood, ↑slice, ↑snack, ↑soup, ↑starter, ↑steak, ↑sweet, ↑thing, ↑tomato, ↑vegetables, ↑wheat, ↑word