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all-eating

all-eating adjective: eating all; consuming everything.

Adjective

all-eating (not comparable)

  1. Eating all; consuming everything.
    • Then being ask'd where all thy beauty lies, / Where all the treasure of thy lusty days / To say, within thine own deep-sunken eyes, / Were an all-eating shame and thriftless praise.1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 2”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC

Questions about all-eating

What does all-eating mean?
All-eating means eating all; consuming everything.
What part of speech is all-eating?
All-eating is an adjective.

Words near all-eating in the dictionary

  1. all-day sucker
  2. all-day suckers
  3. all-dayer
  4. all-devouring
  5. all-dressed
  6. all-eating
  7. all-electric
  8. all-embracing
  9. all-encompassing
  10. all-englobing
  11. all-everything

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