English noun: eating | |||
1. | eating (act) the act of consuming food | ||
Synonyms | feeding | ||
Broader (hypernym) | consumption, ingestion, intake, uptake | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | banqueting, bite, browse, browsing, chomp, coprophagia, coprophagy, degustation, dining, engorgement, feasting, graze, grazing, lunching, mycophagy, necrophagia, necrophagy, omophagia, relishing, repletion, savoring, savouring, scatophagy, supping, surfeit, tasting | ||
Part holonym | chew, chewing, manduction, mastication | ||