eaten

[eat·en]

If you leave an antique flowerpot outside all winter, the snow and rain might eat the paint, making it look even older than it is.

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Adjective
having been taken into the mouth for consumption


p. p.
of Eat


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Usage Examples

Somebody hits me, I'm going to hit him back. Even if it does look like he hasn't eaten in a while.

Nobody's ever asked me to pay for a meal before I've eaten it, I've never been pulled over just because I was driving the wrong kind of car in the wrong kind of area at the wrong time of night.

Investors have few spare tires left. Think of the image of a car on a bumpy road to an uncertain destination that has already used up its spare tire. The cash reserves of people have been eaten up by the recent market volatility.

Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't.

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

I haven't eaten at a McDonald's since I became President.

I don't like to waste anything. Any food left over from the night before is always eaten the next day.

I can pretty much live without fast food. I haven't eaten McDonald's in so long, but it's okay.

I feel that directors at times are like the janitors on the set. I am the secretary, I am the organizer, I am the maid, and I ask if they have eaten or rested. The best things are always out of your control. It's those moments that surpass the imagination that are thrilling.

As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.

Marriage? It's like asparagus eaten with vinaigrette or hollandaise, a matter of taste but of no importance.

I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle, so all is peace.

I also have a soft spot for spicy chicken wings. They are always best eaten at dives and sports bars, like Wogie's in the West Village, New York City, near my house.

My favorite play in drama school was 'The Bacchae.' It's about a king who literally gets eaten alive by all the women in the play in a kind of orgy - it's related to the word 'bacchanal' - and I loved that idea of animalistic chaos and following our own desires.

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