1 to eat

2 to consume

3 to eat at (a cafeteria etc)

4 to eradicate

5 to destroy

6 to absorb

7 to suffer

8 to stammer (Taiwan pr. for this sense is [jí])

1 to have a meal

2 to eat

3 to make a living

1 variant: 碗 wǎn

1 to eat on the sly

2 to pilfer food

3 to be unfaithful

1 to entail strenuous effort

2 to toil at a task

3 strenuous

4 laborious

5 strain

1 don't do it, or don't rest (idiom); either give up, or go through to the end

2 Since we started, we must carry it through whatever happens.

3 in for a penny, in for a pound

1 lit. when a man achieves the Dao, his poultry and dogs rise to Heaven (idiom)

2 fig. to ride on sb else's success

3 Once one man gets a government position, all his cronies get in too

4 Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it

1 to live miles apart (idiom)

1 news pass quickly from mouth to mouth (idiom)

2 an infectious disease spreads quickly (old meaning)

1 happy on the one hand, but worried on the other (idiom)