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Definition of 'diet'Alternative forms
* (rare)
Noun
( en-noun)
(senseid)The food and beverage a person or animal consumes.
- The diet of the Giant Panda consists mainly of bamboo.
(countable) A controlled regimen of food and drink, as to gain or lose weight or otherwise influence health.
By extension, any habitual intake or consumption.
- He's been reading a steady diet of nonfiction for the last several years.
(countable) A council or assembly of leaders; a formal deliberative assembly.
Derived terms
* dietarian
* dietary
* dieter
* dietetics
Verb
( en-verb)
To regulate the food of (someone); to put on a diet.
*, I.iii.1.2:
- they will diet themselves, feed and live alone.
* Spenser
- She diets him with fasting every day.
To modify one's food and beverage intake so as to decrease or increase body weight or influence health.
- I've been dieting for six months, and have lost some weight.
(obsolete) To eat; to take one's meals.
* Francis Bacon
- Let himdiet in such places, where there is good company of the nation, where he travelleth.
(obsolete) To cause to take food; to feed.
* Othello
- But partly led to diet my revenge […].
Anagrams
* edit
* tide
* tied
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