eaten
inflected form of “eat” — take in solid food
An inflected form of eat · inflected form.
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,778 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 5,978 times across 175,113 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
verb
- take in solid food She was eating a bananaWhat did you eat for dinner last night?
- eat a meal; take a meal We did not eat until 10 P.M. because there were so many phone callsI didn't eat yet, so I gladly accept your invitation
- take in food; used of animals only also: feed This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meatWhat do whales eat?
- worry or cause anxiety in a persistent way also: eat on What's eating you?
- use up (resources or materials) also: consume, eat up, use up, deplete, exhaust, run through this car consumes a lot of gasWe exhausted our savings
- cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid also: corrode, rust The acid corroded the metalThe steady dripping of water rusted the metal stopper in the sink
eaten in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Perhaps he had eaten a green apple.
Half-Past Seven Stories · Robert Gordon Anderson · Chapter 1
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The old gentleman would not allow me to be questioned before I had eaten.
The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete · George Meredith · Chapter 1
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Reddy Fox wouldn't have eaten the fattest chicken there if it had been right before him.
The Adventures of Prickly Porky · Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess · Chapter 1
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I went in; for I was very hungry, having, so to speak, eaten nothing for several days past.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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What would be my wife's mortification when the news was brought that her husband had been eaten by a bear!
In the Wilderness · Charles Dudley Warner · Chapter 1