eating feeding | the act of consuming food |
great white shark white shark man-eater man-eating shark Carcharodon carcharias | large aggressive shark widespread in warm seas, known to attack humans |
crab-eating opossum | South American opossum |
crabeater seal crab-eating seal | silvery grey Antarctic seal subsisting on crustaceans |
crab-eating dog crab-eating fox Dusicyon cancrivorus | wild dog of northern South America |
crab-eating macaque croo monkey Macaca irus | monkey of southeast Asia, Borneo and the Philippines |
crab-eating raccoon Procyon cancrivorus | a South American raccoon |
cutlery eating utensil | tableware implements for cutting and eating food |
restaurant eating house eating place eatery | a building where people go to eat |
eating apple dessert apple | an apple used primarily for eating raw without cooking |
erosion eroding eating away wearing wearing away | (geology) the mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles washing over it) |
eating disorder | a disorder of the normal eating routine |
bulimia binge-eating syndrome | a disorder of eating seen among young women who go on eating binges and then feel guilt and depression and selfondemnation |
consume | engage fully, The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy |
consume ingest take in take have | serve oneself to, or consume regularly, Have another bowl of chicken soup!, I don't take sugar in my coffee |
consume eat up use up eat d deplete exhaust run through wipe out | use up (resources or materials), this car consumes a lot of gas, We exhausted our savings, They run through bottles of wine a week |
consume squander waste ware | spend extravagantly, waste not, want not |
devour down consume go through | eat immoderately, Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal |
consume | destroy completely, The fire consumed the building |
flesh-eating(a) meat-eating(a) zoophagous | (of animals) carnivorous |
carpophagous fruit-eating(a) | feeding on fruit |
grass-eating(a) | feeding on grasses |
plant-eating(a) phytophagic phytophagous phytophilous | (of animals) feeding on plants |
time-consuming | of a task that takes time and patience |
consuming overwhelming | very intense, politics is his consuming passion, overwhelming joy |
cold stale dusty moth-eaten | lacking originality or spontaneity, no longer new, moth-eaten theories about race, stale news |
moth-eaten mothy | worn or eaten away by (or as if by) moths, moth-eaten blankets |
moth-eaten ratty shabby tatty | showing signs of wear and tear, a ratty old overcoat, shabby furniture, an old house with dirty windows and tatty curtains |
vermiculate worm-eaten wormy | infested with or damaged (as if eaten) by worms |