Eating

n. act of consuming food, chewing and swallowing

v. consume food; destroy; wear away, corrode; consume

For "eat" or "EAT" as an abbreviation or acronym, see EAT. In general terms, eating (formally, ingestion) is the process of consuming nutrition, i.e. food, for the purpose of providing for the nutritional needs of an animal, particularly their energy requirements and to grow. All animals must eat other organisms in order to survive: carnivores eat other animals, herbivores eat plants, and omnivores consume a mixture of both.
See more at Wikipedia.org...

Eating /eat·ing/ the act of ingestion. binge eating uncontrolled ingestion of large quantities of food in a discrete interval, often with a sense [more]Eating - Community and Resources

Noun
1. the act of consuming food
(synonym) feeding
(hypernym) consumption, ingestion, intake, uptake
(hyponym) bite, chomp
(part-meronym) chew, chewing, mastication, manduction
(derivation) feed, eat

Verb
1. take in solid food; "She was eating a banana"; "What did you eat for dinner last night?"
(hyponym) wash down
(entail) chew, masticate, manducate, jaw
(derivation) eater, feeder
2. eat a meal; take a meal; "We did not eat until 10 P.M. because there were so many phone calls"; "I didn't eat yet, so I gladly accept your invitation"
(hypernym) consume, ingest, take in, take, have
(hyponym) take out, take away
(see-also) eat in, dine in
(derivation) eater, feeder
3. take in food; used of animals only; "This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat"; "What do whales eat?"
(synonym) feed
(hypernym) consume, ingest, take in, take, have
(hyponym) forage
(derivation) eating, feeding
4. use up (resources or materials); "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week"
(synonym) consume, eat up, use up, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out
(hypernym) spend, expend, drop
(hyponym) run out
(verb-group) take, occupy, use up
5. worry or cause anxiety in a persistent way; "What's eating you?"
(synonym) eat on
(hypernym) worry, vex
6. cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid; "The acid corroded the metal"; "The steady dripping of water rusted the metal stopper in the sink"
(synonym) corrode, rust
(hypernym) damage
(verb-group) corrode, rust

(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Eat
  

(n.)
The act of tasking food; the act of consuming or corroding.
  

(n.)
Something fit to be eaten; food; as, a peach is good eating.