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Definition of "eat on" []

  • Worry or cause anxiety in a persistent way (verb)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

Use "eat on" in a sentence
  • "Announcing that they cannot afford to eat on their twopence a day—it is a disgrace, with bread at sixteen pence the quartern loaf."
  • "I discovered Heinz Vegetarian Beans in college because it was what I could afford to eat on a regular basis and it provided me a healthy meal."
  • "“An omen,” Appuleia said to her as the seven settled to eat on chairs around a table."
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