Collocations for eat - verb

well
We ate very well most of the time (= had lots of nice food).

a lot, enough, too much
He's not eating enough.

healthfully (AmE), healthily, properly, sensibly
I'm trying to eat more healthily.
She doesn't eat sensibly (= doesn't eat food that is good for her).

poorly
hungrily, ravenously
heartily
sparingly
Barton did not feel very hungry and ate sparingly.

barely, hardly
He'd barely eaten any breakfast.

quickly, slowly
in silence, quietly, silently
happily
Everyone happily ate the huge meal.

alone, together

find sth to, get (yourself) sth to, grab sth to, have sth to
Do you have anything to eat?

have enough to
try and, try to
Try and eat something. It will do you good.

a bite to eat (= some food)
Do you want to grab a bite to eat?

eat and drink
Go and get yourself something to eat and drink.

eat like a horse (= eat a lot)
She's very thin but she eats like a horse!

eat sb out of house and home
He's eating us out of house and home (= eating a lot of our food).

go eat (esp. AmE)
Let's go eat.

good enough to eat (figurative)
You look good enough to eat!

go out to eat
We went out to eat for a Chinese New Year celebration.

a place to eat (= a cafe or restaurant)
Are you looking for a place to eat?

sit down to eat
We eventually sat down to eat at 8.30 p.m.

Eat is used with these nouns as the subject:
lion

Eat is used with these nouns as the object:
apple, avocado, banana, beef, berry, biscuit, bowl, bun, cake, calorie, candy, carbohydrate, carrot, cereal, chicken, chip, chop, coconut, corn, crisp, cuisine, dessert, diet, dish, fat, feast, fish, flesh, food, fruit, grape, grass, ham, helping, ice cream, jelly, lunch, meat, morsel, mouthful, orange, pasta, pea, portion, potato, produce, ration, salad, salmon, sandwich, sausage, seafood, slice, snack, soup, starter, steak, sweet, thing, tomato, vegetables, wheat, word