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/it ɪntˈu/ Listen

verb

Eat v. i. (past ate, obs. or colloq. eat; past part. eaten, obs. or colloq. eat; pres. part. eating)

To take food; to feed; especially, to take solid, in distinction from liquid, food; to board. "He did eat continually at the king's table."

To taste or relish; as, it eats like tender beef.

To make one's way slowly.

To eat, To eat in or To eat into, to make way by corrosion; to gnaw; to consume. "A sword laid by, which eats into itself."

To eat to windward (Naut.), to keep the course when closehauled with but little steering; said of a vessel.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Eat into" Quotes from Famous Books

... this kind of trouble," said Louis dully. "Anyway, I got such a fright that I understood nothing rightly up to midnight. The terrible feeling of public disgrace eat into me. I saw and heard people crying over me as at a funeral, you know that hopeless crying. The road ahead looked to be full of black clouds. I wanted to die. Then I wanted to get away. When I found a ship they took me for a half-drunk ...

— The Art of Disappearing • John Talbot Smith

... was beginning to eat into the vital parts of even Oswald, there was a quick tap-tapping of horses' feet on the road, and a dogcart came in sight with a lady in ...

— The Wouldbegoods • E. Nesbit

... kinds of forces, have worked together in excavating the canon: the river, which is the primary factor, and the meteoric forces, which may be called the secondary, as they follow in the wake of the former. The river starts the gash downward, then the aerial forces begin to eat into the sides. Acting alone, the river would cut a trench its own width, and were the rocks through which it saws one homogeneous mass, or of uniform texture and hardness, the width of the trench would probably have been very uniform and much ...

— Time and Change • John Burroughs

... that set his mug beside him shook so that some tea was spilt. Bates was in as dire need of the man he received so unwillingly as ever man was in need of his fellow-man. It is when the fetter of solitude has begun to eat into a man's flesh that he begins to proclaim his indifference to it, and the human mind is never in such need of companionship ...

— What Necessity Knows • Lily Dougall

... disease of the skin, characterised by the tuberculous eruptions which eat into the skin, particularly of the face, and ...

— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood