Italian-English Dictionary

To ingest; to be ingested.

The act of ingesting food.

The act of corroding or consuming some substance.

(slang) To hit, especially on the head.

To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against.

To hit (someone or something) hard, especially with a flat implement or a stick; to thrash, to whack.

(transitive) To erode.

(transitive) To cause to feel uneasy, troubled, worried, guilty, or vexed; to bother about something.

(copulative, intransitive) To have a particular quality of diet; to be well-fed or underfed (typically as "eat healthy" or "eat good").

(transitive) To remove or take control of an opponent’s piece in a game (e.g., chess, go, checkers).

(intransitive, archaic) To eat, dine.

(Newfoundland, South Africa, and, British Army, _, slang) Food.

(transitive) To give (someone or something) food to eat.

(transitive) To give to a machine to be processed.

A simple dessert made by cooking sweetened milk with cornstarch and vanilla.

(ambitransitive) To eat too much of.

To physically corrode or erode (something) gradually.

To destroy (something) gradually by an ongoing process.

(intransitive, slang, often, with "to") To become aware of or see through a deception.

(idiomatic) To sense something suspicious.

(idiomatic) To quit, or fail.

(idiomatic, intransitive) To admit one's faults; to make a humiliating apology.

Nothing is achieved by empty words or flattery.