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ate one's feelings

ate one's feelings is the simple past of eat one's feelings.

Meaning of eat one's feelings

Verb

eat one's feelings (third-person singular simple present eats one's feelings, present participle eating one's feelings, simple past ate one's feelings, past participle eaten one's feelings)

  1. (idiomatic) To turn to comfort food in order to deal with one's emotional problems.
    • The way I eat my feelings now is much different from how I ate my feelings when I was growing up. I used to use “bad food” as a reward system. If I went to the gym, I deserved a pizza, […]2017, Lindsey Smith, Eat Your Feelings

Questions about ate one's feelings

What is ate one's feelings the simple past of?
Ate one's feelings is the simple past of eat one's feelings.

Words near ate one's feelings in the dictionary

  1. ate like a horse
  2. ate like an animal
  3. ate one's cake and had it too
  4. ate one's dinners
  5. ate one's emotions
  6. ate one's feelings
  7. ate one's fill
  8. ate one's gun
  9. ate one's hat
  10. ate one's head off
  11. ate one's heart

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