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Antonyms for eats out
Grammar : Verb |
Spell : eet |
Phonetic Transcription : it |
Definition of eats out
Origin :- "food," in use mid-19c. in U.S., considered colloquial, but the same construction with the same meaning was present in Old English.
- As in berate : verb criticize hatefully
- As in dine : verb eat, often formally
- Though he comes in once in a while and eats out of the hand.
- Extract from : « A Son Of The Sun » by Jack London
- Why, honest, Reggie, even the Gumshoe just eats out of his hand.
- Extract from : « Deering of Deal » by Latta Griswold
- But take my word for it, it is so tame now that it eats out of your hand compared to what it once was.
- Extract from : « Bert Wilson in the Rockies » by J. W. Duffield
- And yet it would be no exaggeration to say that the average American, especially the average farmer, eats out of a frying-pan.
- Extract from : « The Book of Life: Vol. I Mind and Body; Vol. II Love and Society » by Upton Sinclair
- It eats out all the beauty, tenderness, and affection of domestic and social life.
- Extract from : « Friends and Neighbors » by Anonymous
- He eats out his own head, and his horses' too; he knows no grace but grace before meat, nor mortification but in fasting.
- Extract from : « Character Writings of the 17th Century » by Various
- He needs a long spoon who eats out of the same dish with the devil.
- Extract from : « Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources » by James Wood
- He eats out of my hand in the afternoon and has one of his papers jump on me in the morning.
- Extract from : « The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I » by Burton J. Hendrick
- It eats out of one the very soul of truth, of love, and of faith.
- Extract from : « Modern Skepticism: A Journey Through the Land of Doubt and Back Again » by Joseph Barker
- He knows the power of littles; that little by little consumes and eats out the vigor of the soul.
- Extract from : « The Mind of Jesus » by John R. Macduff
Synonyms for eats out
- banquet
- bawl out
- blister
- breakfast
- call down
- castigate
- censure
- chew
- chew out
- chide
- consume
- cuss out
- do lunch
- eat out
- fall to
- feast
- feed on
- give one hell
- give what for
- jaw
- jump all over
- lunch
- rail at
- rake over the coals
- rate
- rebuke
- reprimand
- reproach
- reprove
- revile
- scold
- scorch
- sup
- supper
- tell off
- tongue-lash
- upbraid
- vituperate
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