dieted

1. 1
   verb

   Past tense and past participle of diet. Use this form for eating changes that already happened.

   She dieted carefully before her vacation.

   They dieted all winter to feel healthier.

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2. 2
   adjective

   Describing a person or animal that has been kept on a low-calorie eating plan.

   The dieted patients lost weight over six months.

   Vets check whether a dieted pet is getting enough nutrients.

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3. 3
   adjective

   Looking thinner or changed because of eating less food.

   Her dieted frame fit into the old dress easily.

   The dieted look suited him after months of careful eating.

   Similarlean, slim, trim

   Oppositeplump, flabby

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4. 4
   adjective

   Giving special food and nutrition care, often as part of medical treatment.

   It was a dieted hospital, so the kitchen cooked each patient the meals the doctors chose.

   The old army clinic became a dieted one when it got its own cooks and special menus for the sick.

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5. 5
   adjectivefiguratively

   Made shorter or smaller than the full version.

   Like a long story told in just a few words.

   The editor sent back a dieted version of the report.

   We released a dieted menu with fewer choices.

   Similarabridged, reduced, trimmed, condensed

   Oppositeunabridged

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6. 6
   adjectivefiguratively

   Caused by not having enough of something.

   Like a plant that stays small because it never gets enough water.

   The dieted economy struggled after years of shortage.

   Their dieted rations reflected the famine outside.

   Similarmeager, lean, scanty, impoverished

   Oppositeabundant, bountiful, plentiful

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7. 7
   adjective

   Well fed, or getting or needing extra food.

   The dieted cattle, given extra grain all winter, sold for the best prices at the market.

   This lawn grass is a dieted kind and needs extra feeding every few weeks.

   Similarwell-fed, nourished

   Oppositeunderfed, starved

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