noun
1. the act of consuming food (Freq. 9)
• Syn: ↑eating
• Hypernyms: ↑consumption, ↑ingestion, ↑intake, ↑uptake
• Hyponyms:
↑mycophagy, ↑bite, ↑chomp, ↑browse, ↑browsing, ↑coprophagy, ↑coprophagia, ↑dining, ↑engorgement, ↑feasting, ↑banqueting, ↑graze, ↑grazing, ↑lunching, ↑repletion, ↑surfeit, ↑supping, ↑tasting, ↑savoring, ↑savouring, ↑relishing, ↑degustation, ↑necrophagia, ↑necrophagy, ↑omophagia, ↑scatophagy
• Part Meronyms: ↑chew, ↑chewing, ↑mastication, ↑manduction
2. the act of supplying food and nourishment (Freq. 6)
• Syn: ↑alimentation
• Derivationally related forms: ↑aliment (for: ↑alimentation), ↑feed
• Hyponyms:
Useful english dictionary. 2012.