Eat humble pie. Suffer humiliation, endure mortification, be humbled, be abashed, be taken down, eat dirt.
Eating, a. Corrosive, erosive, corroding, caustic, catheretic.
Eating-house, n. Restaurant, chop-house, coffee-house, café.
Eat one’s words. Take back what was said, retract a statement, withdraw charges.
Eat out. Eat away, consume, gnaw out, erode, destroy.
Eat up. Consume, devour, make away with, destroy, use up, exhaust.
Eau-de-cologne, n. [Fr.] Cologne, cologne-water.
Eavesdropper, n. Stealthy listener.
Eavesdropping, n. Listening by stealth.
Ebb, n.
- 1. Regression, regress, retrocession, retrogression, reflux, refluence, return.
- 2. Decline, decay, deterioration, degeneration, degeneracy, caducity, wane, waning.
- 3. Decrease, diminution, abatement, decrement, subsidence.
Ebb, v. n.
- 1. Recede, retire, flow back.
- 2. Decline, decrease, decay, wane, sink, fall away.
Ebon, a.
- 1. Dark, black, inky.
- 2. Made of ebony.
Ebriety, n. Drunkenness, intoxication, inebriation, inebriety.
Ebullience, Ebulliency, n.
- 1. Effervescence, ebullition, boiling over.
- 2. Bursting forth, overflow, burst, rush, bursting vigor.