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Eat someone alive

verb, slang

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Verb
  1. 1
    To consume a prey animal that is still alive, as many predators do.

    ""This's nuts," his father said, but he spoke hollowly, with no strength. "If you go wandering around out there, you'll be eaten alive." "No more than the coyote ate me alive when I got out of the cell," David said. "The danger isn't if I go out there; it's if we all stay in here.""

  2. 2
    To consume a prey animal that is still alive, as many predators do.; To bite repeatedly. informal

    "You may find that in June it rains so hard the streets are filled with a foot of mud and the mosquitoes eat people alive, but in October the place is beautiful."

  3. 3
    To overwhelm or consume someone. informal

    "She shook her head wearily, the guilt eating her alive."

  4. 4
    To criticize harshly or rebuke strongly. informal

    "However, the album never even made it onto the record charts, and the critics ate her alive."

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