Verb

• S: (v) eat (take in solid food) "She was eating a banana"; "What did you eat for dinner last night?"
• S: (v) eat (eat a meal; take a meal) "We did not eat until 10 P.M. because there were so many phone calls"; "I didn't eat yet, so I gladly accept your invitation"
• S: (v) feed, eat (take in food; used of animals only) "This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat"; "What do whales eat?"
• S: (v) eat, eat on (worry or cause anxiety in a persistent way) "What's eating you?"
• S: (v) consume, eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out (use up (resources or materials)) "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week"
• verb group
• S: (v) take, occupy, use up (require (time or space)) "It took three hours to get to work this morning"; "This event occupied a very short time"
• direct troponym / full troponym
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (v) spend, expend, drop (pay out) "spend money"
• S: (v) pay (give money, usually in exchange for goods or services) "I paid four dollars for this sandwich"; "Pay the waitress, please"
• S: (v) give (transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody) "I gave her my money"; "can you give me lessons?"; "She gave the children lots of love and tender loving care"
• S: (v) transfer (cause to change ownership) "I transferred my stock holdings to my children"
• derivationally related form
• sentence frame
• S: (v) corrode, eat, rust (cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid) "The acid corroded the metal"; "The steady dripping of water rusted the metal stopper in the sink"