-ate
 1. As an ending of participles or participial adjectives it is equivalent to -ed; as, situate or situated; animate or animated.
 2. As the ending of a verb, it means to make, to cause, to act, etc.; as, to propitiate (to make propitious); to animate (to give life to).
 3. As a noun suffix, it marks the agent; as, curate, delegate. It also sometimes marks the office or dignity; as, tribunate.
 4. In chemistry it is used to denote the salts formed from those acids whose names end -ic (excepting binary or halogen acids); as, sulphate from sulphuric acid, nitrate from nitric acid, etc.  It is also used in the case of certain basic salts.

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 eat
      v 1: take in solid food; "She was eating a banana"; "What did you
           eat for dinner last night?"
      2: eat a meal; take a meal; "We did not eat until 10 P.M.
         because there were so many phone calls"; "I didn't eat
         yet, so I gladly accept your invitation"
      3: take in food; used of animals only; "This dog doesn't eat
         certain kinds of meat"; "What do whales eat?" [syn: feed]
      4: use up (resources or materials); "this car consumes a lot of
         gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20
         bottles of wine a week" [syn: consume, eat up, use up,
          deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out]
      5: worry or cause anxiety in a persistent way; "What's eating
         you?" [syn: eat on]
      6: cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an
         acid; "The acid corroded the metal"; "The steady dripping
         of water rusted the metal stopper in the sink" [syn: corrode,
          rust]
      [also: eaten, ate]


 Ate
      n : goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment


 ate
      See eat