питаться — meaning in English

English meaning

• eat verb To take food into the mouth and swallow it.
• feed verb To give food to a person or animal.
• scavenge verb To search through discarded material for something useful.

Senses

питаться is used for these senses in English:

• eat To ingest; to be ingested.
• feed (transitive) To give to a machine to be processed.
• scavenge (transitive) To collect and remove refuse, or to search through refuse, carrion, or abandoned items for useful material.

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?").

feed — full definition

1. verb To give food to a person or animal.
2. verb To supply material into a machine or process.
3. noun Food given to farm animals or pets.
4. noun A continuously updated stream of online content, such as posts from social media.

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