Word Finder - ate

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To ingest; to be ingested.

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To use up.

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To cause (someone) to worry.

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What’s eating you?

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To take the loss in a transaction.

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To be injured or killed by (something such as a firearm or its projectile), especially in the mouth.

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To corrode or erode.

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The acid rain ate away the statue.  The strong acid eats through the metal.

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To perform oral sex (on a person or body part).

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Eat me!

I ate a while ago on my break.

He ate another cookie in troubled silence.

She ate her dinner, beat.

She ate the meat and drank some of the cool water.

They ate in silence until he finally turned a concerned gaze on her.

Lisa ate the food and washed the dishes.

He ate alone in the condo's kitchen, not surprised to see Bianca asleep when he finally returned to bed.

They ate breakfast and arrived at church promptly.

She ate her dinner on the back porch then wandered out onto the beach barefooted.

She ate another croissant.

We even ate our breakfast out on the piazza.

We ate ice cream at the mall.

Destiny woke and ate a few bites before going back to sleep.

He ate without waiting for her, his eyes either glued to her or the door.

And if he was invis'ble, and the bears invis'ble, who knows that they really ate him up?

She made the letters rapidly, and I gave her the cake, which she ate in a great hurry, thinking, I suppose, that I might take it from her.

I ate very small fish for supper.

We ate supper and put the rest in the refrigerator for you.

They ate in silence for a while and finally Gerald spoke, his tone conversational.

Eureka stuck up her nose at such food, but the tiny piglets squealed delightedly at the sight of the crackers and ate them up in a jiffy.

Deep ruts and "cradle-holes" were worn in the ice, as on terra firma, by the passage of the sleds over the same track, and the horses invariably ate their oats out of cakes of ice hollowed out like buckets.

Deities ate for pleasure, not out of need.

We ate in Montrose.

Nicholas ate and drank (chiefly the latter) in silence.

People only ate meat when it was caught.

Fred said he was too mind-stuffed with all these goings-on to eat a bite of supper, but when Cynthia supplied cold chicken and potato salad, he ate two helpings, just out of politeness.

Looks like he ate his service revolver, but the jury's still out.

He ate in silence for a few minutes.

We played games and ate dinner under the trees, and we found ferns and wild flowers.

I got up, washed my face and hands, combed my hair, picked three dew violets for Teacher and ate my breakfast.

Then I ate my dinner.

Natasha ate of everything and thought she had never seen or eaten such buttermilk cakes, such aromatic jam, such honey-and-nut sweets, or such a chicken anywhere.

He ate his supper of buckwheat soup with horseflesh and chatted with his comrades.

In mythology,Persephone ate six pomegranate seeds and so was forced to live in the underworld six months out of the year.

While those who ate raw foods remained healthy into old age, the cooked fooders came down with all the "diseases of civilization," and got worse with each generation!

We ate Polish sausage and sauerkraut and some kick ass horseradish.

How your body processes alcoholic drinks also depends on body type and how much food you ate that day.

Remember the simple cupcakes you ate as a kid?

Or, maybe you have a dog like my Lab, who just last week ate a full box of donuts that had been left out.

Before the era of commercial dog food, dogs ate homemade and raw dog food diets.

Dogs in the wild ate a diet primarily of meat with additional nutrients from scavenged vegetables and fruits.

If you ate some non-organic cereal this morning or munched on a loaf of non-organic commercial bread, you probable ate some genetically modified foods.

He sat on the end of the bed and watched reflectively as she ate the ice cream.

Maybe it was the mercury in the tuna she ate or the excessive amounts of chocolate.

He ate the bas­tard for lunch!

But when another butterfly of the same species, but with the wings cut off, was offered to her she promptly ate it without showing any sign of dislike.

They ate meat of all kinds, and drank a kind of mead.

He received Johnson's homage with the most winning affability, and requited it with a few guineas, bestowed doubtless in a very graceful manner, but was by no means desirous to see all his carpets blackened with the London mud, and his soups and wines thrown to right and left over the gowns of fine ladies and the waistcoats of fine gentlemen, by an absent, awkward scholar, who gave strange starts and uttered strange growls, who dressed like a scarecrow and ate like a cormorant.

Foals are weaned when five or six months old, often in October, and require to be housed to save the foal-flesh, and liberally but not overfed; but from the time they ate a month old they require to be " gentled " by handling and kindly treatment, and the elementary training of leading from time to time by a halter adjusted permanently to the head.

The heretics of whom Heribert speaks condemned riches, denied the value of the sacraments and of good works, ate no meat, drank no wine and rejected the veneration of images.