ALL meanings of ate
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A a - noun ate Ate is the past tense of eat. 3
- noun ate a goddess who makes men blind so that they will blunder into guilty acts 3
- noun ate the goddess personifying criminal folly or reckless ambition in human beings, which brings on punishment by Nemesis 3
- verb transitive ate eat 3
- verb ate simple past tense of eat. 1
- noun ate eats, Informal. food. 1
- verb with object ate to take into the mouth and swallow for nourishment; chew and swallow (food). 1
- verb with object ate to consume by or as if by devouring gradually; wear away; corrode: The patient was eaten by disease and pain. 1
- verb with object ate to make (a hole, passage, etc.), as by gnawing or corrosion. 1
- verb with object ate to ravage or devastate: a forest eaten by fire. 1
- verb with object ate to use up, especially wastefully; consume (often followed by up): Unexpected expenses have been eating up their savings. 1
- verb with object ate to absorb or pay for: The builder had to eat the cost of the repairs. 1
- verb with object ate Slang: Vulgar. to perform cunnilingus or fellatio on. 1
- verb without object ate to consume food; take a meal: We'll eat at six o'clock. 1
- verb without object ate to make a way, as by gnawing or corrosion: Acid ate through the linoleum. 1
- idioms ate be eating someone, Informal. to worry, annoy, or bother: Something seems to be eating him—he's been wearing a frown all day. 1
- idioms ate eat crow. crow1 (def 7). 1
- idioms ate eat high off the hog. hog (def 16). 1
- idioms ate eat humble pie. humble pie (def 3). 1
- idioms ate eat in, to eat or dine at home. 1
- idioms ate eat one's heart out. heart (def 26). 1
- idioms ate eat one's terms. term (def 17). 1
- idioms ate eat one's words. word (def 16). 1
- idioms ate eat out of one's hand. hand (def 49). 1
- idioms ate eat someone out of house and home, to eat so much as to strain someone's resources of food or money: A group of hungry teenagers can eat you out of house and home. 1
- idioms ate eat someone's lunch, Slang. to thoroughly defeat, outdo, injure, etc. 1
- idioms ate eat the wind out of, Nautical. to blanket (a sailing vessel sailing close-hauled) by sailing close on the weather side of. 1
- noun ate Simple past form of eat. 1