Definitions for eaten

eaten eat·en

Spelling: [eet-n]
IPA: /ˈit n/

Eaten is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 46 anagrams from letters in eaten (aeent).

Definitions for eaten

noun

  1. eats, Informal. food.

verb

  1. a past participle of eat.

Idioms

  1. be eating someone, Informal. to worry, annoy, or bother:
  2. eat crow. crow1 (def 7).
  3. eat high off the hog. hog (def 16).
  4. eat humble pie. humble pie (def 3).
  5. eat in, to eat or dine at home.
  6. eat one's heart out. heart (def 26).
  7. eat one's terms. term (def 17).
  8. eat one's words. word (def 16).
  9. eat out of one's hand. hand (def 49).
  10. eat someone out of house and home, to eat so much as to strain someone's resources of food or money:
  11. eat someone's lunch, Slang. to thoroughly defeat, outdo, injure, etc.
  12. eat the wind out of, Nautical. to blanket (a sailing vessel sailing close-hauled) by sailing close on the weather side of.

Verb phrases

  1. eat away/into, to destroy gradually, as by erosion:
  2. eat out, to have a meal at a restaurant rather than at home.
  3. eat up, to consume wholly. to show enthusiasm for; take pleasure in: to believe without question.

verb (used with object)

  1. to take into the mouth and swallow for nourishment; chew and swallow (food).
  2. to consume by or as if by devouring gradually; wear away; corrode:
  3. to make (a hole, passage, etc.), as by gnawing or corrosion.
  4. to ravage or devastate:
  5. to use up, especially wastefully; consume (often followed by up):
  6. to absorb or pay for:
  7. Slang: Vulgar. to perform cunnilingus or fellatio on.

verb (used without object)

  1. to consume food; take a meal:
  2. to make a way, as by gnawing or corrosion:

Origin of eaten

before 900; Middle English eten, Old English etan; cognate with German essen, Gothic itan, Latin edere

Examples for eaten

I have eaten so many fish that it were but justice that the fish should eat me.

But the medical examiner reported that Brinsley had eaten nothing at all.

They had hoped the autopsy would show Brinsley had eaten something that would point them in the right direction.

"Come, dearest sister; you have eaten not a morsel to-day," she said.

"Halbert, you have eaten scarcely anything," said his mother.

When he had eaten, he sat with his coffee for a final smoke of deliberation.

By nightfall, I had showered, eaten some soup that a friend brought me, and I slept in my room for 12 solid hours.

It was forbidden to be eaten, and seen as having powers that beat back “demons and sorcerers” as well as “misfortune.”

Grace had eaten little and drunk nothing; but Howe was slightly stimulated.

As the steaks are eaten, Mount, who has some skill in these things, brings up the movie.

Word Value for eaten
Scrable

5

Words with friends

6

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