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1 the food you eat
2 wanting to eat
3 eating
4 after eating
see also FOOD, DRINK, KNIFE/FORK/SPOON, PLATE/BOWL/DISH

1 the food you eat
- the general word for things that people usually eat: food (noun U)
There's not much food in the fridge! ◎ food and drink ◎ baby food
- food that you have or want to have on a particular occasion: something to eat
Would you like something to eat?
- the flavour of a particular food or drink: taste
I don't know what you put in it but it's got a really strange taste.
- anything which a person can eat is edible; opposite: inedible
※ more on taste TASTE
- food which is eaten at a particular time of the day: meal
- a small meal, for example a sandwich, that you can eat between main meals: snack
- light food and drinks served in public places: (rather formal) refreshments
Light refreshments will be available.
※ more on meals MEAL
- the food that a person usually eats: diet (noun C/U)
People who live on the East coast of Africa have a diet mainly of fish and rice. ◎ A healthy diet is important for a long life. ◎ a balanced diet (= having a healthy variety of different kinds of food)
illnesses caused by poor diet
- when you eat only certain foods, for example because you want to lose weight or for medical reasons, you follow a special diet
a high-fibre diet ◎ a low-calorie diet
- to have sth as your only food: live on sth
They live on fish and chips!
- to eat or drink less of sth: cut* down on sth
I'm cutting down on sugar.
- to avoid eating or drinking sth: keep* off sth
He's going to try and keep off fatty foods for a while.
- food that you need to stay healthy: nourishment (noun U); to give sb nourishment: nourish sb; food which is good and healthy is nourishing, nutritious
You can't just eat sweets and crisps - you need to get some proper nourishment. ◎ a nutritious meal
- the food that you eat and the way it affects your health: nutrition (noun U)
I'm studying food and nutrition at college.
※ eating a lot
- to eat too much: overeat*
- a person who eats too much is greedy; nouns (U): greed, greediness
You're only allowed one biscuit, not three - don't be so greedy. ◎ I've never seen such greediness - she ate the whole cake herself!
- a person who eats too much: glutton, (informal) pig
Greedy pig!
- to eat a lot, in a greedy way: gorge yourself (on sth), (informal) make* a pig of yourself
There was so much to eat - I ended up making a real pig of myself.
※ not eating enough
- a person who has not been given enough food is underfed
- to have nothing or very little to eat: starve; noun (U): starvation; adjective: starving, (half-)starved
There are people starving all over the world. ◎ a famine (= a period when there is not enough food) leading to mass starvation ◎ a starving child ◎ Those poor animals - they look half-starved.
- the illness that people can have from not eating enough food: malnutrition (noun U)
to suffer from malnutrition
- a person who is suffering from malnutrition is malnourished
※ choosing to eat a little
- to choose not to eat very much because you want to lose weight: diet, go*/be on a diet
I want to lose weight so I'm going on a diet.
- to choose not to eat, for religious reasons for example: fast; noun: fast
Muslims fast during Ramadan.

2 wanting to eat
- when you need or want to eat sth, you are hungry; the feeling that you want or need to eat: hunger (noun U)
I'm hungry - what time's dinner? ◎ suffering from hunger
- a bit hungry: peckish
to feel a bit peckish
- very hungry: famished, ravenous, starving
I'm absolutely famished.
- the desire or need for food: appetite (noun C/U)
Jack's got a huge appetite - you'd better make enough for four. ◎ I don't think she's well - she's got no appetite.
- to become hungry because of working: work up an appetite

3 eating
- to take food into your body through your mouth: eat* (sth)
I'm hungry. I really must have something to eat. ◎ Are you ready to eat now?
- to take liquid into your body through your mouth: drink* (sth)
- to eat and/or drink: (formal) consume sth; noun (U): consumption
Only food bought here may be consumed on the premises.
- to cut food with your teeth: bite* (into sth); noun: bite
She bit into her sandwich. ◎ Can I have a bite of your apple?
- the amount of food you put in your mouth at one time; a small amount of food: mouthful
I'm not really hungry, I'll just have a mouthful.
- to break up food in your mouth with your teeth: chew (sth)
- to make food or drink pass into your body from your mouth: swallow (sth)
- to send food or liquid out of your mouth: spit* sth out
- the wet substance in your mouth which helps you to chew and swallow the food: saliva (noun U)
- to pull a liquid into your mouth by making your lips into a round shape and pulling your cheeks in: suck (sth)
You should suck cough sweets slowly, not chew them.
- to move your tongue across sth: lick sth
to lick an ice cream
- to eat food very quickly: bolt sth (down), gobble sth (up)
Don't bolt your food - you'll get indigestion.
- to eat or drink sth very quickly: gulp sth (down)
I woke up really late, gulped down my tea and ate my toast on the bus.
- to eat sth by taking small bites: nibble (at/on) sth
She nibbled a piece of cheese.
- to give food to sb/sth: feed* sb/sth
※ feeding a baby BABY
- feeding an animal; the way animals eat ANIMAL

4 after eating
- when you have had enough to eat you are (informal) full (up)
'Would you like some more?' 'No thanks, it was lovely but I'm full.'
- if you cannot eat any more, then you can't manage sth
That was a lovely meal but I'm afraid I can't manage any more.
- to change food in the stomach so that it can be used by the body: digest sth; noun (U): digestion; the system in your body which causes food to be digested: digestive system
Small babies cannot digest solid food.
- when your stomach hurts because it cannot digest the food, you have indigestion (noun U)
Onions give me indigestion.
- air that you swallow when you are eating or drinking; the gas in your stomach: wind (noun U)
- to bring the gas up through your mouth: belch, (informal) burp
- the sound that you make when you bring gas up through your mouth: belch, (informal) burp
to give a burp
- to bring food up through the mouth when you are ill: be sick (especially AmE) throw* up, (formal) vomit; to avoid vomiting: keep* sth down
He can't keep anything down - he was sick three times during the night and then he threw up again this morning.
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- if you see sth nice to eat and the smell makes you feel hungry, it makes* your mouth water
Mm, that smells delicious, it's really making my mouth water.
- to give people only a small amount of sth (not as much as they may want): ration sth; noun (U): rationing
During the war, food, clothes and petrol were all rationed. ◎ Rationing did not end until the 1950s.
- the amount given to sb when there is not enough to go round, for example in a war: ration