1. chews; eats; devours, preys upon; bites, hurts; grinds, makes chatter (teeth).
2. consumes (goods or money); preys upon, plunders.

…khādaniya (q.v.)
pp khādita (q.v.). Cp. pali˚.

Dhtp.155 “khāda bhakkhane”; cp. Sk. khādati, cp. Gr. κνώδων the barbed hook of a…

…Pv.ii.12#18 (sunakho te khādati) 2. (fig.) a constituent part of a whole or system or collection, e.g. uposath˚; the vows of the fast…

(= khādiyati, Pass. of khādati; Dhtm.93 bhakkhaṇa)

1. to be eaten, chewed, eaten up, as by animals upacikāhi Vin.ii.113; suṇakhehi…

…Ja.iii.276
■ piṭṭha˚ pastry Vin.i.248.

grd. of khādati; also as khādanīya

…place of feeding Ja.v.447.

pp. med. & pass. of khādati

to make eat Ja.iii.370; Ja.vi.335.

Caus. ii. of khādati

…in phrase m ti khādati to eat or bite up to bits Ja.i.342; Ja.v.21 (of a Yakkhinī, eating a baby).

onomat. to…

…(an ascetic) who uses his teeth as a pestle Ja.iv.8 (an aggi-pakkaṃ khādati, eats food uncooked, only crushed by his teeth).

…karoti passāvaṃ karoti khādati bhuñjati)

• -paṭibhāna of loose intelligence, or immoderate promptitude (opp….

…Ja.iv.344; Ja.v.45.

Sk. *nikhādana, ni + khādati, cp. khādana

adjective drying or dried (in the sun), with ref. to food Snp-a.35 (parivāsika-bhattaṃ bhuñjati hatth’otāpakaṃ khādati).

fr. otāpeti

to bite all round, to gnaw or peck off MN.i.364 (kukkuro aṭṭhikankalaṃ p.).

pali + khādati

to masticate Vin.ii.201 = SN.ii.269 (reads ˚kharitvā); AN.iii.304 sq.; Ja.i.507
pp -khādita.

saṃ + khādati

chewed, masticated Kp-a.56, Kp-a.257; Vb-a.241 (where Vism.257 reads -khāyita).

pp. of sankhādati

…Ja.i.7; Ja.iii.8; Ja.vi.409; Dpvs.ix.7 (˚kamma). vilopaṃ khādati to live by plunder Ja.vi.131.

vi + lopa