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Eating

of Eat

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Narrower term 18

Banqueting 76% connected

of Banquet

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Bite 76% connected

To seize with the teeth, so that they enter or nip the thing seized; to lacerate, crush, or wound with the teeth; as, to bite an apple; to bite a cru…

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Browse 76% connected

The tender branches or twigs of trees and shrubs, fit for the food of cattle and other animals; green food.

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Browsing 76% connected

of Browse

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Chomp 76% connected

To chew loudly and greedily; to champ.

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Degustation 76% connected

Tasting; the appreciation of sapid qualities by the taste organs.

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Dining 76% connected

of Dine

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Engorgement 76% connected

The act of swallowing greedily; a devouring with voracity; a glutting.

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Feasting 76% connected

of Feast

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Graze 76% connected

To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for.

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Grazing 76% connected

of Graze

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Lunching 76% connected

of Lunch

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Relishing 76% connected

of Relish

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Repletion 76% connected

The state of being replete; superabundant fullness.

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Savoring 76% connected

of Savor

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Supping 76% connected

of Sup

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Surfeit 76% connected

Excess in eating and drinking.

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Tasting 76% connected

of Taste

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Broader term 4

Consumption 76% connected

The act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc.; decay; destruction.

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Ingestion 76% connected

The act of taking or putting into the stomach; as, the ingestion of milk or other food.

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Intake 76% connected

The place where water or air is taken into a pipe or conduit; -- opposed to outlet.

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Uptake 76% connected

To take into the hand; to take up; to help.

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Derivationally related 4

Eat 74% connected

of Eat

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Eat 74% connected

of Eat

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Feed 74% connected

of Fee

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Feed 74% connected

of Fee

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Component part 3

Chew 70% connected

To bite and grind with the teeth; to masticate.

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Chewing 70% connected

of Chew

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Mastication 70% connected

The act or operation of masticating; chewing, as of food.

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Synonym 1

Feeding 92% connected

of Feed

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