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half-eaten

adjective

  1. (of food, a meal, etc) partially consumed

    he pushed his half-eaten meal away

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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There were two unopened tins of tuna found in the microwave and half-eaten food in the bedroom, including bread and raw pasta.

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Backpacks and half-eaten meals lay abandoned on tables where students had fled.

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This bottom layer also came to include what my Auntie Hilda called ‘spit-backs’ from the top layer: half-eaten choices that I’d liked the look of — based on the legend — but then turned against when I took a bite.

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He found Miller in the kitchen, her half-eaten body surrounded by food and garbage, which, Fadden wrote, had been “apparently scattered by bears.”

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I love serving a pasta salad that steals the spotlight from grilled meats — guests will abadon half-eaten burgers to instead pile even more salad on their plates.

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