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eating someone's heart

eating someone's heart is the present participle and gerund 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 eating someone's heart

What is eating someone's heart the present participle and gerund of?
Eating someone's heart is the present participle and gerund of eat someone's heart.

Words near eating someone's heart in the dictionary

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

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