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ate someone's heart

ate someone's heart is the simple past and past participle of eat someone's heart.

Meaning of eat someone's heart

Verb

eat someone's heart (third-person singular simple present eats someone's heart, present participle eating someone's heart, simple past and past participle ate someone's heart)

  1. To destroy and humiliate someone.
    • O God! that I were a man. I would eat his heart in the marketplace.1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

Questions about ate someone's heart

What is ate someone's heart the simple past and past participle of?
Ate someone's heart is the simple past and past participle of eat someone's heart.

Words near ate someone's heart in the dictionary

  1. ate someone alive
  2. ate someone for breakfast
  3. ate someone out of house and home
  4. ate someone's ass
  5. ate someone's dust
  6. ate someone's heart
  7. ate someone's lunch
  8. ate something up
  9. ate something up with a spoon
  10. ate the baby
  11. ate the bread of idleness

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