drink 'take in liquids' eat 'take in solid food' imbibe 'take in liquids' eat 'eat a meal; take a meal'
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down 'COD: consume (a drink)' feed 'COD: eat' lunch 'COD: no obj., with adverbial eat lunch. ' have 'COD: eat or drink' swill 'COD: drink greedily or in large quantities. ' quaff 'COD: drink (something) heartily' ingest 'COD: with obj. take (food or drink) into the body by swallowing or absorbing it. ' lap 'COD: (of an animal) take up (liquid) with the tongue' eat 'COD: put (food) into the mouth and chew and swallow it. ' snack 'COD: no obj. eat a snack. ' devour 'COD: eat (food or prey) hungrily or quickly.' imbibe 'FN: drink in (formal/scientific)' feast 'COD: Eat and drink sumptuously. "The men would congregate and feast after hunting."' sup 'COD: (dated) eat supper' breakfast 'FN: eat (some food as) the first meal of the day. "She breakfasted on fried bread and bacon."' munch 'COD: Eat steadily and audibly. ' nibble 'COD: a.take small bites out of. with obj. or eat in small amounts. ' nosh 'FN: have a snack' swig 'COD: drink in large draughts. "Dave swigged the wine in five gulps." "Ratagan swigged at his beer."' gobble 'COD: eat hurriedly and noisily' nurse 'COD: hold (a cup or glass), drinking from it occasionally' gulp 'COD: Swallow (drink or food) quickly or in large mouthfuls, often audibly. He smiled and gulped his tea.' sip 'COD: Drink (something) by taking small mouthfuls. "I sat sipping coffee."' consume 'COD: Eat, drink, or ingest.' slurp 'COD: eat or drink with a loud sucking sound. "She slurped her coffee." "He slurped noisily from a wine cup."' drink 'COD: take (a liquid) into the mouth and swallow. ' guzzle 'COD: eat or drink greedily. "He would guzzle his ale."' dine 'COD: Eat dinner. "We dined at a restaurant."'
The patient must drink several liters each day The children like to drink soda She was eating a banana 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 What did you eat for dinner last night?
Examples from VerbNet
He smoked the pipe. Cynthia ate the peach. He ate off of the table. Cynthia ate.
Examples from SemCor
In_any_case, though they had been promised immortality if they ate of the tree, they obtained mortality instead. Above, in the tiled prosceniums of the alcoves, boys sing the ghazals of Hafiz and Saadi, while at the very bottom, in the vaults, the toughs and blades of the city hoot and bang their drums, drink arak, play dice, and dance. For fifty-five years he had lived, progressing towards a no-goal, eating, working, breathing without plan, without reason. `` He 's finished eating'', Hogan said. Charlie ate some supper in the kitchen and went_into the TV_room to hear the news. In the second sentence if drinking water is a gerundial clause and without drinking water is roughly in meaning to unless I drink water, there will be stronger stress on water than on drinking; but if drinking is a gerundial noun modifying water and without drinking_water is without water for drinking, there will be stronger stress on drinking than on water. She drank greedily, and murmured,`` Thank_you'', as he lowered her head. That 'll be plenty to eat by''. But when some of the squeals had subsided and she had been through one of those sessions that are so indispensable to the young female- six girls sprawled on one bed, drinking Cokes and giggling- she came_back to the kitchen to talk with me a minute. He had eaten almost nothing on the crested, three sectioned plate and had drunk about half the milk in its paper container. She drank and pushed back her gingham bonnet to wet a kerchief and wipe her face. Top_dog, sleeping and eating right there with the Staff. Linda_Kay told him he could do anything like that with his Grandma dying, and he said well they had_to eat, did they, they were all dying. `` Lillian 's bread is so good and everything tastes so_much better here that it is hard not to eat too_much'', said the secretary ruefully eyeing her extra pounds. Since strong nociceptive stimuli produce an experimental neurosis during which the animals fail to eat in the experimental situation, Wolpe thought that he could utilize the feeding pain antagonism to inhibit the neurotic symptoms through feeding. They ate the cafeteria food with its orange sauces and Scotty gazed without interest at his food, the teachers, the heroic baronial windows, and the bright ranks of college banners. James_P._Mitchell, when he was the head of the department, promised to eat his hat if unemployment did n't drop below three million a_couple_of years ago. `` Well'', remarked one gentleman who had been forced to accompany his wife,`` the good Lord can eat where angels fear to tread''. Despite his personal distaste for obesity(`` disgusting''), Dr._Keys has only an incidental interest in how much Americans eat. I have no picture in my mind of the garden- that I could not see- but certain aspects of certain corners linger in the memory: wind-blown, frost-bitten, white chrysanthemums beneath a window, with their brittle brown leaves and their sharp scent of November; ripe pears lying in long grass, to be turned_over by a dusty slippered foot, cautiously, lest bees still worked in the ragged, brown edged holes; hot colored verbenas in the corner between the dining-room wall and the side porch, where we passed on_our_way to the pump with the half gourd tied to it as a cup by my grandmother for our childish pleasure in drinking from it. Americans eat too_much. Here_and_there she stayed to visit and drink a glass of sherry. Thus in it 's incredible what that boy can eat dominant stress is likely to be on incredible, and eat will have strong stress also. It 's not_much of a meal, but it 's what I eat''. to the argument was the fact that while she might have tasted the coffee if it had been still hot, she might even have drunk some of it, she would have taken enough to kill her, for she would have been warned by its taste. `` Along with the fruit they did also fall under the power of death, because they did eat in disobedience; and disobedience to God entails death. Most members of the U._S._Senate, because they are human, like to eat as high on the hog as they can. We ran_out of money and we have n't eaten for two days''. He has measured the skinfolds( the fleshy areas under the shoulder_blades) of Neapolitan firemen, studied the metabolism of Finnish woodcutters, analyzed the`` mealie-meal'' eaten by Capetown coloreds, and experimented on Minneapolis businessmen. It 's one thing to go without food when you 're occupied with some work or when you 're simply postponing a meal, but when you 're dependent_on someone else and know that you can n't eat until he 's bedded_down for the night, hunger can be a gnawing torture. `` I wonder if they did eat each other at the end'', Owen mused. The dialogue is sharp, witty and candid- typical`` do eat the daisies'' material- which has stamped the author throughout her books and plays, and it was obvious that the Theatre-by-the-Sea audience liked it. Drink your coffee''- But Keys worries that the Metrecal drinker will never make either the psychological or physiological adjustment to the idea of eating smaller portions of food. It was the silver foil from the chocolate_bar he had been eating. Their secondary hero is another pro, Willie_Chisholm, who drank his lunch during another Open and tried to blast his way out of a rock strewn gully. No, the fish could eat their bodies for all the Sturch cared. Pale yellow snapdragons that by pinching could be made to bite; seed-pods of the balsams that snapped like fire-crackers at a touch; red and yellow columbines whose round tipped spurs were picked_off and eaten for the honey in them; morning-glory buds which could be so grasped and squeezed that they burst like a blown-up paper_bag; bright flowers from the trumpet_vine that made``'' on the ends of ten waggling fingers. He was copious in his praise of those that served food that was good to eat. He remembered the last time he had eaten- actual eggs from an actual pan. Eat in a restaurant or motel mornings and evenings; or just evenings. The children are eating, and Miss_Blackwell 's on her way somewheres''. He told himself he had never seen two people eat so_much. To eat is human, the nation is learning to think, to survive divine. She 'll eat just a pineapple and cottage_cheese salad and I 'm to have one with her so she won n't feel out of place''. At the beginning of the school_year, the new students do n't eat the cereal right_away, but within a short_time they are eating it voraciously. Three of these only were protected from us by stern commandment: the roses, whose petals be collected until they had fallen, to be made into perfume or rose tea to drink; the peonies, whose tight sticky buds would be blighted by the laying_on of_a finger, although they were not apparently harmed by the ants that crawled over them; and the poppies. `` We 've got to eat'', Sarah said, curtly, because a chill crawled over her again. She wanted to hang_around while I was eating. They all sat around and drank ice_water, and the men smoked, and everybody had a good time. He ate breakfast in a sullen mood, but afterwards, when he walked out onto Virginia_Street, he felt braced. He drank slowly with due appreciation. They tasted good to him, so he brought some to breakfast to eat in his cereal_bowl with milk and honey. No sooner had I started drinking than the driver started zigzagging the truck. She finished her hamburger and drank her coffee and paid her check; she got_out of the coffee_shop before the incident could be repeated. `` You do eat enough, honey. A nuclear pacifier of these dimensions- roughly some six and a half_times bigger than anything the United_States has triggered experimentally- would certainly produce a bigger bang, and, just for kicks, Khrushchev might use it to propel the seminar of the house of delegates from St._Louis to the moon, where there would n't even be any beer to drink. Forty years ago an English writer, W._L._George, dealt with this subject in Eddies_of_the_Day, and said, as an example, that' Saint_George for Merry_England' would not start a spirit half so quickly as' Strike frog eating Frenchmen dead'''! `` If it ai n't an idea'', she said,`` how comes it you can drink beer but not water''? The basis for compost materials already existed on the school farm with a stable of animals for the riding program, poultry for eggs, pigs to eat garbage, a beef herd and wastes of all kinds. They had cleaned_up an old ice_box and begun to buy fifty pound blocks of ice in town, as the electric_refrigerator came nowhere near providing enough ice for the crowds who ate and drank there. A_few months ago it was a fairly typical landlord who in the dead of night lugged me up a mountainside to drink from a spring famous in the neighborhood for its clarity and flavor. They had cleaned_up an old ice_box and begun to buy fifty pound blocks of ice in town, as the electric_refrigerator came nowhere near providing enough ice for the crowds who ate and drank there. When served in a psychological atmosphere that allows young bodies to assimilate the greatest good from what they eat because they are free from tension, a foundation is laid for a high level of health that releases the children from physical handicaps to participate with enjoyment in the work assignments, the athletic programs and the_most important phase, the educational opportunities. One wrote:``[ I am so hungry] I could eat a rider off his horse+ snap_at the stirups''. Even eggs and other cholesterol-rich foods, eaten in normal amounts, says Dr._Keys, do not materially affect the amount of cholesterol in the blood. She ate. Then, as he doubled, gasping, vomiting the breakfast he had so lately eaten, Lord straightened him with an uppercut. And unlike other fruits, one cannot eat the skin of the avocado. I quickly turned_around and began to drink. She was personally sloppy, and when she had colds would blow her nose in the same handkerchief all day and keep it, soaking wet, dangling from her waist, and when she gardened she would eat dinner with dirt on her calves. The reading public, the theatergoing public, the skindiving public, the horse-playing public- all these and_others fill substantial roles in U._S. life, but none is so varied, vast and vigilant as the eating public. `` Why, Winston'', she 'd cry,`` I just_now saw you eating it out of the jar''! Would not the children, if they received all their food on the first day_of_the_month, eat it up immediately, and later go_hungry? And in the wake of the new affluence and the new techniques of processing comes a new American interest in how what people eat affects their health. Wolfe refuses to ever leave his own house, and spends most_of his time drinking beer and playing with orchids. I eat too_much eggs and poark it sowered[ on] my stomack and turn loose on me''. Hanging over the bar was an oil_painting of a nude Al had accepted from a student at the Corcoran_Gallery who needed to eat and drink and was broke. It was one thing to awaken outside a restaurant where your parents were eating and quite another to awaken in a strange garage and know your parents had gone_on home without you. He had talked one other member of the group to stay with him, but that friend had tired of not eating regularly and returned to Savannah. He ate what he felt_like, slept as much or as little as he pleased, and moved about the draughty rooms of the house, when he was not in bed, with slow dubious steps, like an elderly tourist in a cathedral. The practice of charging employes for meals whether they eat at the hospital or not should be abolished. She had swished away, she had been gone for a long_time probably when Sarah suddenly realized that she ought_to stop her, pour_out the coffee, so no_one would drink it. Why not put a cafe in each so the tourists would not have to travel too far to eat? `` Drink your beer''. Americans eat too_much fat. I have observed that being up on a horse changes the whole character of a man, and when a very small man is up on a saddle, he 'd like as not prefer to eat his meals there. They headed in_that direction and, at San_Juan Capistrano_by-the-Sea came_upon Barco sitting in the quaint old Spanish Mission_Drive-in, eating a hot tamale. He had eaten almost nothing on the crested, three sectioned plate and had drunk about half the milk in its paper container. She ate what she could and went_out along the covered passageway, with the rain dripping from the vines. After they had finished eating, Melissa took Sprite the kitten under her arm-`` so_that Auntie_Grace can teach it about the whistle''- and climbed into the station_wagon beside her mother. There are signs that it has struggled for days to escape and that in a frenzy of hunger, pain, and fear, it has eaten off its own leg. Hanging over the bar was an oil_painting of a nude Al had accepted from a student at the Corcoran_Gallery who needed to eat and drink and was broke.