diet
noun
food and drink considered in terms of its qualities, composition, and its effects on health.
had dieted
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past perfectof diet.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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I had dieted myself into a binge-eating disorder, and that really scared me.
From New York Times ● Mar. 5, 2018
By last week he had dieted to 361 Ib., was still unemployed.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yesterday I felt as if I had dieted upon diamonds and were sparkling with rainbow colors like an icicle in the sun.
From Memories of Hawthorne by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop
And I thought fat could not harm me, as the poet says, for I had dieted to-day.
From Believe You Me! by Nina Wilcox Putnam
"It looks as if you had dieted for some days, then."
From The Barber of Paris by Charles Paul de Kock
