ate
Broke the fast
Ate is the past tense of eat.
I ate breakfast at seven.
She ate the whole thing.
The word appears in idioms: What ate you? asks what's bothering someone.
To have eaten one's words is to retract a statement.
In slang, especially online, ate means performed excellently: She ate that performance.
Ate hungrily and completely
- swallowedPassed through throat
- ingestedTook into body
- gulpedSwallowed hastily
- munchedAte with audible chewing
nibbled · chewed · wolfed · bolted · scarfed · gobbled · chomped · gnawed
Ate at formal gathering
- dinedAte, especially elegantly
- suppedAte, especially evenings
- indulgedYielded to desire
- celebratedWidely known and praised
partook · savored · relished · enjoyed · gorged · splurged · treated · wined and dined
Indulged to excess
- overindulgedConsumed to excess
- pigged outAte far too much
- gorgedAte to excess
- stuffedFilled beyond capacity
glutton · excess · compulsive eating · second helpings · food coma · regret · guilt · too much
devoured
Ate hungrily and completely
munched · nibbled · chewed · wolfed · bolted · scarfed · gobbled · chomped · gnawed · crunched
banqueted
Ate at formal gathering
celebrated · partook · savored · relished · enjoyed · gorged · splurged · treated · wined and dined · pigged out
binged
Indulged to excess
- overindulgedConsumed to excess
- pigged outAte far too much
- gorgedAte to excess
stuffed · glutton · excess · compulsive eating · second helpings · food coma · regret · guilt · too much
famished
Intensely, painfully hungry
peckish · craving · pangs · empty · growling stomach · appetite · voracious · desperate · deprived · malnourished
full
Maximum extent reached
content · replete · gorged · bloated · overfull · bursting · nourished · well-fed · had enough
atefasted
Refrained from eating
starved · abstained · went hungry · skipped meals · hungered
- ate upFinished with gusto
- ate awayDestroyed gradually
- ate outHad restaurant meal
- ate like a pig
- ate away atDestroyed slowly, persistently
- ate too much
beaten, eaten, uneaten, eatery, eater, eaters, eateries, overeater, overate