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EATING

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of consuming food

Synonyms:

eating; feeding

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("eating" is a kind of...):

consumption; ingestion; intake; uptake (the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating))

Meronyms (parts of "eating"):

chew; chewing; manduction; mastication (biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "eating"):

mycophagy (the practice of eating fungi (especially mushrooms collected in the wild))

bite; chomp (the act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws)

browse; browsing (the act of feeding by continual nibbling)

coprophagia; coprophagy (eating feces; in human a symptom of some kinds of insanity)

dining (the act of eating dinner)

engorgement (eating ravenously or voraciously to satiation)

banqueting; feasting (eating an elaborate meal (often accompanied by entertainment))

graze; grazing (the act of grazing)

lunching (the act of eating lunch)

repletion; surfeit (eating until excessively full)

supping (ingestion of liquid food with a spoon or by drinking)

degustation; relishing; savoring; savouring; tasting (taking a small amount into the mouth to test its quality)

necrophagia; necrophagy (feeding on corpses or carrion)

omophagia (the eating of raw food)

scatophagy (the eating of excrement or other filth)

Derivation:

eat (eat a meal; take a meal)

eat (take in solid food)

eat (take in food; used of animals only)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb eat

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 Context examples: 

For a day and a night he remained by the kill, eating and sleeping, turn and turn about.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

He is not now eating them, but putting them into a box, as of old, and is already examining the corners of his room to find a spider.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Keeping a regular schedule of eating, activity, and taking any medicines you need can help.

(Blood Sugar, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

Eating toxic mushrooms causes more than 100 deaths a year, globally, and leaves thousands of people in need of urgent medical assistance.

(New Test Identifies Poisonous Mushrooms, Agricultural Research Service)

We looked at the inflammatory reactions of 20 volunteers at 0, 3 and 6 hours after eating a standardized meal containing 38 percent fat and their responses were completely unique.

(Humans More Unique than Expected When It Comes to Digesting Fatty Meals, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

But there’s no need to start eating chocolate if you don’t already.

(Can Chocolate Really Be Good for You?, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Limiting foods rich in dietary cholesterol, such as eggs, may be important to consider when choosing a healthy eating pattern.

(Eggs No Longer Part of a Healthy Diet?, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A University of Queensland study suggests eating eight or more portions of fruit and vegetables a day not only leads to better physical health but improves mental well-being.

(Fruit and veggies pave the road to happiness, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The researchers observed a significantly altered eating behavior in overweight animals.

(German scientists find potential treatment for obesity, Agência Brasil)

After eating a high amount of sodium, the mice had about a 25% decrease in blood flow.

(Pathogenic tau and cognitive impairment are precipitated by a high-salt diet, National Institutes of Health)