 | English | German  | |
| – | |
 | to devour | 352 fressen | |
| to eat [animal] | 183 fressen | |
| to gorge | 140 fressen [ugs.] [pej.] | |
| to munch | 39 fressen | |
| to guzzle [eat greedily] | 37 fressen [derb] [gierig essen] | |
| to gormandize | 5 fressen | |
| zool. to feed [eat food] | fressen | |
| to eat like a pig [fig.] [pej.] [eat noisily and unpleasantly] | fressen [derb] [pej.] | |
| to put on the feedbag [Am.] [sl.] | fressen [pej.] [essen] | |
| to gobble up [coll.] [petrol, electricity etc.] | fressen [ugs.] [Benzin, Strom etc.] | |
| Nouns |
| grub [coll.] | 39 Fressen {n} | |
| food | 12 Fressen {n} | |
| tech. fretting | 11 Fressen {n} | |
| tech. fretting | 7 Fressen {n} [lokales Verschweißen und Trennen] | |
| zool. to feed on sth. | etw. fressen [s. von etw. ernähren] | |
| dinner [for a pet] | Fressen {n} | |
| material tech. galling | Fressen {n} | |
| 2 Words: Verbs |
| to eat away at sth. [corrosion etc.] | an etw. [Dat.] fressen [Rost etc.] | |
| to rankle sb. | an jdm. fressen [ugs.] [jdm. zu schaffen machen] | |
| zool. to browse leaves | Blätter fressen | |
| agr. hort. to strip sth. bare [pests] | etw. kahl fressen [Schädlinge] | |
| idiom to eat crow [coll.] [Am.] [Can.] | Kreide fressen [ugs.] | |
| idiom to stoop low | Kreide fressen [ugs.] | |
| idiom to eat boiled crow [coll.] | Kreide fressen [ugs.] | |
| idiom to eat humble pie | Kreide fressen [ugs.] | |
| 3 Words: Others |
| Do sharks eat their own kind? | Fressen Haie ihresgleichen? | |
| 3 Words: Verbs |
| to feed sb. sth. / sth. to sb. [animal] | jdm. [Tier] etw. zu fressen geben | |
| to work into / through sth. | sich durch etw. fressen [ugs.] [sich vorarbeiten, durcharbeiten] | |
| to eat into | sich fressen in [Säure] | |
| to eat each other [animals, cannibals] | sich gegenseitig fressen | |
| to stuff oneself (with food) [coll.] | sich satt fressen [ugs.] | |
| to guzzle oneself | sich voll fressen | |
| to gorge | sich voll fressen [ugs.] | |
| to stuff oneself [coll.] | sich voll fressen [ugs.] | |
| 4 Words: Others |
| proverb Eat or be eaten. | Fressen oder gefressen werden. | |
| 4 Words: Verbs |
| idiom to eat like a pig | fressen wie ein Schwein | |
| idiom to eat out of / from the palm of sb.'s hand | jdm. aus der Hand fressen | |
| to curb stomp sb. [Am.] | jdn. (den) Bordstein fressen lassen [ugs.] | |
| idiom to love sb. to bits | jdn. zum Fressen gern haben [ugs.] | |
| 5+ Words: Others |
| bibl. Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like ... [Galatians 5:20-21; KJV] | Abgötterei, Zauberei, Feindschaft, Hader, Neid, Zorn, Zank, Zwietracht, Rotten, Haß, Mord, Saufen, Fressen und dergleichen, ... [Galater 5,20-21; Luther 1545] | |
| That was just what he is waiting for. | Das war ein gefundenes Fressen für ihn. | |
| proverb Big fish eat little fish. | Die großen Fische fressen die kleinen. | |
| The strong overwhelm the weak. | Die großen Fische fressen die kleinen. [ugs.] | |
| idiom He doesn't have a pot to piss in (nor a window to throw it out). [coll.] [vulg.] | Er kann nicht mal mehr den Kitt aus den Fenstern essen / fressen. [ugs.] | |
| idiom He won't bite you. | Er wird dich schon nicht fressen. | |
| lit. quote First food, then morals. | Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral. [Bertolt Brecht in der Dreigroschenoper] | |
| quote Grub first, then ethics. | Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral. [Bertolt Brecht] | |
| quote First comes a full stomach,then comes ethics. | Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral. [Bertolt Brecht] | |
| quote I cannot eat as much as I would like to vomit. | Ich kann gar nicht so viel fressen, wie ich kotzen möchte. [Max Liebermann] | |
| proverb He that makes himself a sheep, shall be eaten by the wolf. | Wer sich zum Schaf macht, den fressen die Wölfe. | |
| 5+ Words: Verbs |
| zool. to feed an animal on sth. | einem Tier etw. zu fressen geben | |
| idiom to eat sb. out of house and home | jdm. die Haare vom Kopf fressen | |
| Fiction (Literature and Film) hide |
| F film Critters 4 [Rupert Harvey] | Critters 4 – ...das große Fressen geht weiter | |
| F film The Grande Bouffe [Marco Ferreri] | Das große Fressen | |
| F film Two Mules for Sister Sara [Don Siegel] | Ein Fressen für die Geier | |
