[{"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to take into the mouth and swallow for nourishment; chew and swallow (food).", "to consume by or as if by devouring gradually; wear away; corrode:The patient was eaten by disease and pain.", "to make (a hole, passage, etc.), as by gnawing or corrosion.", "to ravage or devastate:a forest eaten by fire.", "to use up, especially wastefully; consume (often followed byup):Unexpected expenses have been eating up their savings.", "to absorb or pay for:The builder had to eat the cost of the repairs.", "Slang: Vulgar.to perform cunnilingus or fellatio on."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["to consume food ;take a meal:We'll eat at six o'clock.", "to make a way, as by gnawing or corrosion:Acid ate through the linoleum."]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["eats,Informal. food ."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb phrase", "List Items": ["to destroy gradually, as by erosion:For eons, the pounding waves ate away at the shoreline.", "to consume wholly.to show enthusiasm for; take pleasure in:The audience ate up everything he said.to believe without question.", "to consume wholly.", "to show enthusiasm for; take pleasure in:The audience ate up everything he said.", "to believe without question.", "to have a meal at a restaurant rather than at home."]}]