- past participle of eat.
eaten
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She would not necessarily sit down with you; chances were good that she had eaten hours earlier, at some time I associated primarily with airport departures and dairy farming.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
A commonly eaten meat in Australia, kangaroo is the world’s leanest protein and the equivalent of venison in America.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026
The results support a recent hypothesis that Neanderthals may have regularly eaten animal carcasses containing fly larvae.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
Human beings have, throughout history, opportunistically eaten almost any edible thing that they could get their hands on.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Those grasshoppers—that’s what they were, in fact—had eaten everything green on Elroy’s farm, including his wife’s green dress that was hanging on the line!
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
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