Food and drink

Synonyms for eat

The synonym for eat recorded in this bank is feed, in the sense "take in food". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 1, Foothills · 1 sense · verb · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 2 puzzles

The synonym for eat

feedverb, in the sense "take in food"

That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and eat carries one sense so far.

The senseverbTier 1, FoothillsFood and drink

take in food

This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat.

One sentence, one sense. Without it the word could be read three other ways.

The true synonym

feed

Same sentence, swapped: This dog doesn't feed certain kinds of meat.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for eat in the sentence quoted.

use
rust
drink

Where eat turns up in the game

eat is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzles where eat is the trap

useverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is apply, in the sense "put into service", so eat is there to be ruled out.
hurtverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is injure, in the sense "cause damage or affect negatively", with eat sitting one tile away.

Play eat

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so eat reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. No sentence here is generated at deploy time.

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toastverb, noundrinkpropose a toast toFoothills2 sensesHas a reason line trynoun, verbeffortearnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish somethingFoothills2 sensesHas a reason line unripeadjectivegreennot yet fully grown or ready to eatFoothillsHas a reason line usenoun, verbexercisethe act of usingFoothills2 sensesHas a reason line lusciousadjectivejuicyrichly sweet and juicy in tasteFoothillsHas a reason line marinateverbsoakto soak food, especially meat, in a seasoned liquid before cookingFoothillsHas a reason line meetverb, adjectivefitfill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condition or restrictionFoothills2 sensesHas a reason line lowadjectivemiserableof the most contemptible kindFoothills2 sensesHas a reason line

The wrong tile gets explained too

Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. eat carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.

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