diet
/ˈdaɪət/ verb C2- To modify one's food and beverage intake so as to decrease or increase body weight or influence health. · I've been dieting for six months, and I've lost some weight.
- To regulate the food of (someone); to put on a diet.
He/she/it diets · Past dieted · Past participle dieted · -ing form dieting
Verb forms
- Base form
- diet
- He/she/it
- diets
- Past
- dieted
- Past participle
- dieted
- -ing form
- dieting
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And content with simple diet;
Morrel bringing a doctor, and the doctor said it was inflammation of the bowels, and ordered him a limited diet.
“From that time he received all who came; he had an excuse for not eating any more; the doctor had put him on a diet.”
Their diet frequently consists of discarded food scraps, fallen fruit, and insects, with earthworms making up a surprisingly large portion of their nutritional intake.
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