This paper provides an overview of the Hittite verbs with meaning relating to the ingestion of food. Taking into account their syntactic properties and metaphorical meanings, a corpus-based approach is employed to elucidate some constructions comprising the verbs ed– ‘to eat’, karap- ‘to devour, to consume’, paš(š)– ‘to swallow, to gulp down’, wak- ‘to bite’, as well as ḫaššikk- ‘to be satiated’. The discussion investigates their uses in attested data and explores their grammatical properties and metaphorical extensions. Figurative extensions of eating verbs and constructions are common and have their sources in the simultaneous but distinct aspects of the act of eating: the sensation of the consumer while ingesting and the destruction or disappearance of the entity consumed.