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nounthe act of consuming food
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Definition that contains eating
- feasting eating an elaborate meal (often accompanied by entertainment)
- gluttony eating to excess (personified as one of the deadly sins)
- banqueting eating an elaborate meal (often accompanied by entertainment)
- overeating eating to excess (personified as one of the deadly sins)
- surfeit eating until excessively full
- coprophagy eating feces; in human a symptom of some kinds of insanity
- engorgement eating ravenously or voraciously to satiation
- repletion eating until excessively full
- geophagy eating earth, clay, chalk; occurs in some primitive tribes, sometimes in cases of nutritional deficiency or obsessive behavior
- geophagia eating earth, clay, chalk; occurs in some primitive tribes, sometimes in cases of nutritional deficiency or obsessive behavior