吃 — meaning in English
chī
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English meaning
- absorb verb To soak up a liquid, gas, or other substance.
- chow noun Informal: food, especially a meal or snack.
- consume verb To eat or drink something.
- dinner noun The main meal of the day, typically eaten in the evening.
- eat verb To take food into the mouth and swallow it.
- essentially adv Basically, or in the most important respects.
- feed verb To give food to a person or animal.
- fret verb To worry or feel anxious about something.
- gorge noun A deep, narrow valley or ravine, usually with steep rocky walls and often a river running through it.
- munch verb To chew food steadily and often audibly.
- suffer verb To experience pain, hardship, or distress.
- yessir intj An informal way of saying "yes, sir", used for emphatic agreement.
Senses
吃 is used for these senses in English:
- absorb (transitive) To include so that it no longer has separate existence; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to incorporate; to assimilate; to take in and use up. [first attested c. 1350 to 1470.]
- aye aye, sir (idiomatic, nautical) The correct and seamanlike reply, onboard a Royal Navy (or US Navy) ship, on receipt of an order from someone of senior rank or authority. It means "I understand the command and hasten to comply with the order."
- chow (slang, South Africa) To eat.
- consume (transitive) To eat.
- dinner A meal given to an animal.
- eat To ingest; to be ingested.
- eat away To physically corrode or erode (something) gradually.
- eat away at (transitive) To erode.
absorb — full definition
- verb To soak up a liquid, gas, or other substance.
- verb To take in and reduce the force of an impact, sound, or shock.
- verb To fully occupy someone's attention or interest.
- verb To take on a cost so that others don't have to pay it.
chow — full definition
- noun Informal: food, especially a meal or snack.
- noun Short for Chow Chow, a fluffy Chinese dog breed known for its blue-black tongue.
- verb Informal: to eat, especially heartily ("chow down").