Antonyms for eat out

Grammar : Verb

Spell : eet

Phonetic Transcription : it

Definition of eat out

Origin : Old English etan (class V strong verb; past tense æt, past participle eten) "to eat, devour, consume," from Proto-Germanic *etanan (cf. Old Frisian ita, Old Saxon etan, Middle Dutch eten, Dutch eten, Old High German ezzan, German essen, Old Norse eta, Gothic itan), from PIE root *ed- "to eat" (see edible).
Transferred sense of "slow, gradual corrosion or destruction" is from 1550s. Meaning "to preoccupy, engross" (as in what's eating you?) first recorded 1893. Slang sexual sense of "do cunnilingus on" is first recorded 1927. Eat out "dine away from home" is from 1933. The slang phrase to eat one's words is from 1570s; to eat one's heart out is from 1590s; for eat one's hat, see hat.

As in berate : verb criticize hatefully
As in dine : verb eat, often formally

Example sentences :

I think, on the whole, I prefer to be a 'roomer' and 'eat out.'
Extract from : « The Mystery of Murray Davenport » by Robert Neilson Stephens

She did not know how to sit at table, and would only eat out of a trough.
Extract from : « The Memoirs of Madame de Montespan, Complete » by Madame La Marquise De Montespan

He would not eat out of their hands, but he took all that Jackson gave him.
Extract from : « The Bad Family and Other Stories » by Mrs. Fenwick

It will eat out the life of a nation as it does the heart of an individual.
Extract from : « The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV » by Various

Each child had a spoon and four of us eat out of one trough.
Extract from : « Slave Narratives, Oklahoma » by Various

The child could not even swallow a morsel, though she tried to eat out of obedience.
Extract from : « Heidi » by Johanna Spyri

By "green" we mean not fully ripe, not ripe enough to eat out of hand.
Extract from : « Apple Growing » by M. C. Burritt

God knows why she should eat out her heart to go back—but she wants it.
Extract from : « The Best Short Stories of 1917 » by Various

One of them got so tamed that he used to eat out of my hand.
Extract from : « Nine Little Goslings » by Susan Coolidge

I don't know what we will eat out of when you get all these dishes broken.
Extract from : « Tabitha at Ivy Hall » by Ruth Alberta Brown

Synonyms for eat out

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