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 chin

2 classifier: 个 gè

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 (idiom) ignore your elders at your peril

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.

1 lit. if you can't eat it all, you'll have to take it home (idiom)

2 fig. you'll have to take the consequences