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

2 sound of stammering

1 to finish eating

1 to eat up

2 to consume

1 to take medicine

1 (idiom) ignore your elders at your peril

1 a man who is never content is like a snake trying to swallow an elephant (idiom)

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

1 lit. you can't expect the horse to run fast but not let it graze (idiom)

2 fig. you can't have your cake and eat it, too

1 Fall into the moat and you'll be wiser next time (idiom); One only learns from one's mistakes.