EATING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does eating mean? 

• EATING (noun)
  The noun EATING has 1 sense:

1. the act of consuming food

  Familiarity information: EATING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EATING (noun)

Meaning:

The act of consuming food

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

eating; feeding

Hypernyms ("eating" is a kind of...):

consumption; ingestion; intake; uptake (the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating))

Meronyms (parts of "eating"):

chew; chewing; manduction; mastication (biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "eating"):

mycophagy (the practice of eating fungi (especially mushrooms collected in the wild))

omophagia (the eating of raw food)

necrophagia; necrophagy (feeding on corpses or carrion)

degustation; relishing; savoring; savouring; tasting (taking a small amount into the mouth to test its quality)

supping (ingestion of liquid food with a spoon or by drinking)

repletion; surfeit (eating until excessively full)

lunching (the act of eating lunch)

graze; grazing (the act of grazing)

geophagia; geophagy; pica (eating earth or clay or chalk; occurs in some primitive tribes or sometimes in cases of nutritional deficiency)

banqueting; feasting (eating an elaborate meal (often accompanied by entertainment))

engorgement (eating ravenously or voraciously to satiation)

dining (the act of eating dinner)

coprophagia; coprophagy (eating feces; in human a symptom of some kinds of insanity)

browse; browsing (the act of feeding by continual nibbling)

bite; chomp (the act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws)

scatophagy (the eating of excrement or other filth)