You can make 12 words from eat according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.
All 3 letters words made out of eat
eat aet eta tea ate tae
Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word eat. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in eat.
Definitions and meaning of eat
eat
Pronunciation
(UK) enPR: ēt, IPA(key): /iːt/
(US) enPR: ēt, IPA(key): /it/
Rhymes: -iːt
Etymology 1
From Middle Englisheten, from Old Englishetan(“to eat”), from Proto-West Germanic*etan, from Proto-Germanic*etaną(“to eat”), from Proto-Indo-European*h₁édti, from *h₁ed-(“to eat”).
(transitive, intransitive) To consume (something solid or semi-solid, usually food) by putting it into the mouth and swallowing it.
(intransitive) To consume a meal.
2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
I eat in the kitchen.
(intransitive, ergative) To be eaten.
(copulative, intransitive) To have a particular quality of diet; to be well-fed or underfed (typically as "eat healthy" or "eat good").
To use up.
(transitive, often with up) To destroy, consume, or use up.
(transitive, programming, informal) To consume (an exception, an event, etc.) so that other parts of the program do not receive it.
(transitive, informal, of a device) To damage, destroy, or fail to eject a removable part or an inserted object.
1991, Shane Black, The Last Boy Scout (movie)
No! There's a problem with the cassette player. Don't press fast forward or it eats the tape!
(transitive, informal, of a vending machine or similar device) To consume money (or other instruments of value, such as a token) deposited or inserted by a user, while failing to either provide the intended product or service or return the payment.
1977, Nancy Dowd, Slap Shot (movie)
Hey! This stupid [soda vending] machine ate my quarter.
(transitive, informal) To cause (someone) to worry.
(transitive, business) To take the loss in a transaction.
1988, George Gallo, Midnight Run (movie)
I have to have him in court tomorrow, if he doesn't show up, I forfeit the bond and I have to eat the $300,000.
(transitive, slang) To be injured or killed by (something such as a firearm or its projectile), especially in the mouth.
1944, William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, Jules Furthman, The Big Sleep (screenplay)
I risk my whole future, the hatred of the cops and Eddie Mars' gang. I dodge bullets and eat saps.
1997, A. A. Gill, "Diary" (in The Spectator, 1 November 1997):
Friends are only necessary in the ghastly country, where you have to have them, along with rubber boots and a barometer and secateurs, to put off bucolic idiocy, a wet brain, or eating the 12-bore.
(transitive, intransitive) To corrode or erode.
(transitive, slang) To perform oral sex (on a person or body part).
(stative, slang) To be very good; to rule; to rock.
Synonyms:bang, rule, rock, slap
(transitive, slang) To annex.
Conjugation
Synonyms
(consume):consume, swallow; see also Thesaurus:eat
(cause to worry):bother, disturb, worry
(eat a meal):dine, breakfast, chow down, feed one's face, have one's breakfast/lunch/dinner/supper/tea, lunch
(perform oral sex on (a person)):eat out; see also Thesaurus:oral sex
Derived terms
Related terms
fret
ort
Translations
See also
drink
edible
food
Etymology 2
From Middle Englishete, ate, æte, from Old Englishǣt(“food, eating”), from Proto-West Germanic*āt, from Proto-Germanic*ētą(“food, thing to eat”), from Proto-Indo-European*h₁ed-(“to eat”). Cognate with North Frisianad, it(“food”), GermanAas(“carrion”), Norwegianåt, Icelandicát(“food”).
Noun
eat (pluraleats)
(colloquial) Something to be eaten; a meal; a food item.
Anagrams
-ate, AET, Até, Atë, ETA, TEA, Tea, a.e.t., aet, ate, eta, tea, æt.