# eaten

Pronunciation: say "EE-tuhn" /ˈiːtn̩/

## Verb

1. Past participle of eat. — past participle of eat
   - Simple: Past participle of eat. Use it after have, has, or had to talk about food already taken in.
   - _By the time help arrived, the survivors had eaten the last of their rations._
   - _Half the orchard had been eaten by deer over the winter._

## Adjective

2. Having been taken in and consumed as food.
   - Simple: Taken in as food.
   - _By midnight the once-full buffet looked thoroughly eaten and picked over._
   - _He pushed his half-eaten meal aside and reached for the wine._

## Origin

The past participle of "eat," formed from eat + -en. It comes from Middle English eten, from Old English eten, from Proto-West Germanic *etan, from Proto-Germanic *etanaz.

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