= action by which someone consumes food; with or without explicit object
to eat
Ingest
= action by which someone gives other people food for consumption, sometimes with the added connotation that these people are actually forced to consume it; with or without explicit object
to make (someone) eat, to give (someone) to eat
Non-Exist, Dead
= action by which people or objects are removed from existence in a violent way as food that is eaten
to consume, to devour, to destroy
Non-Exist
literally: to eat (goods); hence = pattern of actions by which someone makes a living off material goods until they are gone; often associated with joy
to eat > to enjoy, to eat > to use up
Non-Exist
literally: to give (goods) to eat; hence = action by which someone enables someone else to make a living off material goods until they are gone; often associated with joy
to give to eat > to give to enjoy
Non-Space
literally: to eat space; hence: = state in which something takes up space that would normally belong to another object
to eat > to take space
Possess
literally: to eat (an offering); hence: = process by which a deity receives a burnt-offering; used of idols only
to eat > to receive (a sacrifice)
Hear
literally: to eat words; hence: = action by which someone listens carefully to someone else's words
to eat words > to listen carefully to (someone's) words
Chastise
literally: to eat the fruits (of something); hence: = action by which someone accepts the consequences of an attitude or way of life as if they were the fruits of a tree; this expression can have both a positive or a negative sense