eat

How to sign: take in solid food
"She was eating a banana"; "What did you eat for dinner last night?";

Categories: consume, eat, have, ingest, take, take in

Within this category: devour, devour, dunk, eat up, fare, fill up, garbage down, gluttonize, gobble, nibble, peck, pick at, pitch in, ruminate, slurp, smack, wash down, wolf

eat

How to sign: use up (resources or materials)
"this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week";

Similiar / Same: use up, deplete, wipe out, eat up, exhaust, run through, consume

Categories: drop, expend, spend

Within this category: burn off, drain, indulge, run down, run out, spend

eat

How to sign: cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid
"The acid corroded the metal"; "The steady dripping of water rusted the metal stopper in the sink";

Similiar / Same: corrode, rust

Categories: damage