diet
noun
food and drink considered in terms of its qualities, composition, and its effects on health.
will diet
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future tenseof diet.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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Girls eager for attention from their fathers will diet as a way to get it.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thou art all the comfort The Gods will diet me with.
From Cymbeline by William Shakespeare
Thou art all the comfort The gods will diet me with.
From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by John Bartlett
You will diet, and pray, and rave,—because you are growing old,—and I shall do none of these things.
From West Wind Drift by George Barr McCutcheon
