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eating

adjective

Definition of EATING

1
:  used for eating <eating utensils>
2
:  suitable to eat <the finest eating fish>; also :  suitable to eat raw <an eating apple>
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First Known Use of EATING

15th century

Related to EATING

Synonyms
comestible, eatable, edible, esculent
Antonyms
inedible, nonedible, uneatable

Rhymes with EATING

beating, fleeting, greeting, Keating, meeting, seating, sheeting, sweeting

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19 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. eating
  2. eat
  3. eating disorder
  4. eating house
  5. crab-eating fox
  6. crab-eating macaque
  7. crab-eating opossum
  8. crab-eating raccoon
  9. fire-eating
  10. flesh-eating disease
  11. leaf-eating ladybird
  12. sin-eating
  13. wool eating
  14. worm-eating warbler
  15. eat away
  16. eat out
  17. eat up
  18. eggeater
  19. man-eater
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