Found 2 items, similar to ATE.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: ate eat v 1: take in solid food; “She was eating a banana”; “What did you eat for dinner last night?” 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” 3: take in food; used of animals only; “This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat”; “What do whales eat?” [syn: feed] 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” [syn: consume, eat up, use up, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out] 5: worry or cause anxiety in a persistent way; “What's eating you?” [syn: eat on] 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” [syn: corrode, rust] [also: eaten, ate] ate See eat
English → English (gcide) Definition: Ate Ate \Ate\ (?; 277), the preterit of Eat. [1913 Webster] Ate \A"te\, n. [Gr. ?.] (Greek. Myth.) The goddess of mischievous folly; also, in later poets, the goddess of vengeance. [1913 Webster] Eat \Eat\ ([=e]t), v. t. [imp. Ate ([=a]t; 277), Obsolescent & Colloq. Eat ([e^]t); p. p. Eaten ([=e]t"'n), Obs. or Colloq. Eat ([e^]t); p. pr. & vb. n. Eating.] [OE. eten, AS. etan; akin to OS. etan, OFries. eta, D. eten, OHG. ezzan, G. essen, Icel. eta, Sw. ["a]ta, Dan. [ae]de, Goth. itan, Ir. & Gael. ith, W. ysu, L. edere, Gr. 'e`dein, Skr. ad. [root]6. Cf. Etch, Fret to rub, Edible.] 1. To chew and swallow as food; to devour; -- said especially of food not liquid; as, to eat bread. “To eat grass as oxen.” --Dan. iv. 25. [1913 Webster] They . . . ate the sacrifices of the dead. --Ps. cvi. 28. [1913 Webster] The lean . . . did eat up the first seven fat kine. --Gen. xli. 20. [1913 Webster] The lion had not eaten the carcass. --1 Kings xiii. 28. [1913 Webster] With stories told of many a feat, How fairy Mab the junkets eat. --Milton. [1913 Webster] The island princes overbold Have eat our substance. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster] His wretched estate is eaten up with mortgages. --Thackeray. [1913 Webster] 2. To corrode, as metal, by rust; to consume the flesh, as a cancer; to waste or wear away; to destroy gradually; to cause to disappear. [1913 Webster] To eat humble pie. See under Humble. To eat of (partitive use). “Eat of the bread that can not waste.” --Keble. To eat one's words, to retract what one has said. (See the Citation under Blurt.) To eat out, to consume completely. “Eat out the heart and comfort of it.” --Tillotson. To eat the wind out of a vessel (Naut.), to gain slowly to windward of her. Syn: To consume; devour; gnaw; corrode. [1913 Webster]