eat someone's heart
eat someone's heart verb: to destroy and humiliate someone.
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)
- 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
- “And now you sit like a maggot in my flesh, waiting only to eat my heart.”2011, Howard Fast, Moses: The Epic Story of His Rebellion in the Court of Egypt
Forms of eat someone's heart
| third-person singular present | eats someone's heart |
|---|---|
| present participle | eating someone's heart |
| past participle | ate someone's heart |
| past | ate someone's heart |
Questions about eat someone's heart
- What does eat someone's heart mean?
- Eat someone's heart means to destroy and humiliate someone.
- What part of speech is eat someone's heart?
- Eat someone's heart is a verb.
- What is the past tense of eat someone's heart?
- The past tense of eat someone's heart is ate someone's heart.
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