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 why bother?

2 is it worth the trouble?

1 (onom.) sound of muffled laughter (chuckling, tittering etc)

2 sound of stammering

1 to eat, drink and be merry (idiom)

2 to abandon oneself to a life of pleasure

1 to finish eating

1 unable to bear the pain (idiom)

1 (idiom) ignore your elders at your peril

1 lit. the pain of being hanged upside down (idiom); fig. extremely critical situation

2 dire straits

1 to have suffered all kinds of hardships (idiom)

1 A rabbit doesn't eat the grass by its own burrow (idiom); One shouldn't do anything to harm one's neighbors.