食べる — meaning in English

English meaning

• chow noun Informal: food, especially a meal or snack.
• eat verb To take food into the mouth and swallow it.
• eating noun The act of consuming food.
• feed verb To give food to a person or animal.
• inedible adjective Not fit or safe to be eaten.

Senses

食べる is used for these senses in English:

• chow (slang, South Africa) To eat.
• 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").
• feed (transitive) To give to a machine to be processed.
• inedible not edible; not appropriate, worthy, or safe to eat

chow — full definition

1. noun Informal: food, especially a meal or snack.
2. noun Short for Chow Chow, a fluffy Chinese dog breed known for its blue-black tongue.
3. verb Informal: to eat, especially heartily ("chow down").

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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