1. To destroy completely.
2. To use up, as of resources or materials; SYN. eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out.
3. To serve oneself to, or consume regularly; SYN. ingest, take in, take, have.
4. To spend extravagantly; SYN. squander, waste, ware.
5. To engage fully.

(Irregular preterit, past participle: ate, eaten).
1. To eat a meal; take a meal.
2. To take in solid food.
3. To worry or cause anxiety in a persistent way; SYN. eat on.

ETYM Latin ingenium, p. p. of ingerere to put in; pref. in- in + gerere to bear.
1. To take into, or as into, the stomach or alimentary canal.
2. Take in as food; digest.