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mangiare — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • capture verb To take hold of or seize something or someone by force.
  • eat verb To take food into the mouth and swallow it.
  • eating noun The act of consuming food.
  • fare noun The money a passenger pays for a bus, train, taxi, or plane ticket.
  • scoff verb To speak about something with scorn or mockery, treating it as ridiculous.

Senses

mangiare is used for these senses in English:

  • capture (transitive) To remove or take control of an opponent’s piece in a game (e.g., chess, go, checkers).
  • eat To ingest; to be ingested.
  • eat (copulative, intransitive) To have a particular quality of diet; to be well-fed or underfed (typically as "eat healthy" or "eat good").
  • fare (intransitive, archaic) To eat, dine.
  • scoff (Newfoundland, South Africa, and, British Army, _, slang) Food.

capture — full definition

  1. verb To take hold of or seize something or someone by force.
  2. verb To record or represent something, especially so it can be seen or reviewed later.
  3. noun The act of seizing or taking control of something, or the thing seized.

eat — full definition

  1. verb To take food into the mouth and swallow it.
  2. verb To use up or destroy something gradually.
  3. verb To bother or trouble someone (informal, "what's eating you?").

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