Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Past participle of eat.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective ingested through the mouth. Contrasted with
uneaten .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Past participle of
eat - adjective especially in combination That has been
consumed byeating
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Examples
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In some languages the speaker thinks of himself and his completed action as inseparable, as a single idea, as the Latin _edi_ for I have eaten; in others he thinks of himself subconsciously as possessing the results of his action, as our _I have eaten_; and in others, as among the Irish peasantry, he separates himself and his action entirely, as _I am after eating_.
Commentary Upon the Maya-Tzental Perez Codex with a Concluding Note Upon the Linguistic Problem of the Maya Glyphs William Gates 1901
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Other chemicals enter the food chain - eaten by fish and seafood harvested for human consumption, but also consumed by smaller sea creatures that are more distant links in the human food chain.
Long-Term Study of Gulf Oil Spill Health Effects Needed 2010
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Telling a stranger about all the crap we've eaten is embarrassing, and Adam taps into the demographic of people who use the internet buffer as a crutch for saying what they truly feel.
Julia Neyman: Lifting the Inter-veil: How I Met My "Online" Fitness Coach, Face to Face Julia Neyman 2010
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Telling a stranger about all the crap we've eaten is embarrassing, and Adam taps into the demographic of people who use the internet buffer as a crutch for saying what they truly feel.
Julia Neyman: Lifting the Inter-veil: How I Met My "Online" Fitness Coach, Face to Face Julia Neyman 2010
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Telling a stranger about all the crap we've eaten is embarrassing, and Adam taps into the demographic of people who use the internet buffer as a crutch for saying what they truly feel.
Julia Neyman: Lifting the Inter-veil: How I Met My "Online" Fitness Coach, Face to Face Julia Neyman 2010
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Extremely sunburnt and sweaty and disgusting, considering all I've eaten is chips.
Sydneytimes zombietron 2009
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Two nights after that, he was dead, eaten from the inside out by a horde of tiny leeches.
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Telling a stranger about all the crap we've eaten is embarrassing, and Adam taps into the demographic of people who use the internet buffer as a crutch for saying what they truly feel.
Julia Neyman: Lifting the Inter-veil: How I Met My "Online" Fitness Coach, Face to Face Julia Neyman 2010
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Extremely sunburnt and sweaty and disgusting, considering all I've eaten is chips.
Archive 2009-03-01 zombietron 2009
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IMHO, the USA will be eaten from the inside out (big business mafia games).
Think Progress » Right-wing Saudi dynasty endorses right-wing Fox News dynasty. 2010
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