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eaten 音标拼音: ['itən] vbl. 吃, eat的过去分词 吃, eat的过去分词 Eat \ Eat\ ([= e] t), v. t. [ imp. { Ate} ([= a] t; 277), Obsolescent & Colloq. { Eat} ([ e^] t); p. p. { Eaten} ([= e] t"' n), Obs. or Colloq. { Eat} ([ e^] t); p. pr. & vb. n. { Eating}.] [ OE. eten, AS. etan; akin to OS. etan, OFries. eta, D. eten, OHG. ezzan, G. essen, Icel. eta, Sw. [ aum] ta, Dan. [ ae] de, Goth. itan, Ir. & Gael. ith, W. ysu, L. edere, Gr. ' e` dein, Skr. ad. [ root] 6. Cf. { Etch}, { Fret} to rub, { Edible}.] 1. To chew and swallow as food; to devour; -- said especially of food not liquid; as, to eat bread. " To eat grass as oxen." -- Dan. iv. 25. [ 1913 Webster] They . . . ate the sacrifices of the dead. -- Ps. cvi. 28. [ 1913 Webster] The lean . . . did eat up the first seven fat kine. -- Gen. xli. 20. [ 1913 Webster] The lion had not eaten the carcass. -- 1 Kings xiii. 28. [ 1913 Webster] With stories told of many a feat, How fairy Mab the junkets eat. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] The island princes overbold Have eat our substance. -- Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster] His wretched estate is eaten up with mortgages. -- Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To corrode, as metal, by rust; to consume the flesh, as a cancer; to waste or wear away; to destroy gradually; to cause to disappear. [ 1913 Webster] { To eat humble pie}. See under { Humble}. { To eat of} ( partitive use). " Eat of the bread that can not waste." -- Keble. { To eat one' s words}, to retract what one has said. ( See the Citation under { Blurt}.) { To eat out}, to consume completely. " Eat out the heart and comfort of it." -- Tillotson. { To eat the wind out of a vessel} ( Naut.), to gain slowly to windward of her. Syn: To consume; devour; gnaw; corrode. [ 1913 Webster]
eaten \ eaten\ adj. ingested through the mouth. Contrasted with { uneaten}. [ Narrower terms: { consumed}; { devoured, eaten up( predicate)}] [ WordNet 1. 5 PJC] |
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