Eat and Nibble on

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Eat verb - To take in as food.

Usage example: having gone all day without food, we greedily ate the hamburgers

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Nibble on and eat are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Nibble on" instead a verb "Eat".

Nearby Words: eating, eatable, eaten, eater

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Eat and nibble on are semantically related. You can use "Eat" instead a verb phrase "Nibble on".

Which is impressive enough but over the next few days he held perfectly still, allowing rats to come nibble on him so he could eat them, and playing dead while Batman and Crane were fighting right next to himm, only revealing himself when the basement started to flood.

Source: Characters / Batman Rogues Gallery Part 1 aka: Harley Quinn
Erotic Eating: Averted- it looks like Flavia is going to eat the banana in an erotic way, especially when she asks Stylax to look away while she's eating, but she then proceeds hold it horizontal and nibble on it like corn on the cob.

Source: Series / Plebs

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