dieted

comparative more dieted · superlative most dieted

1. Having been on a specialized diet that limits caloric intake.

   The dieted body can lower metabolic rate up to 40 %,

   2016, Amy Francis, Can Diets Be Harmful?, page 43

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   he's a fat, corpulent, Vnwieldy fellow; you, a dieted Sparke, Fit for the Combat.

   1641, Ben Jonson, The Magnetic Lady

   Dr. Schmitz (Neuenahr) calls attention to four interesting cases (two fatal) as illustrating the pathogeny of diabetes, the symptoms resembling that produced in the dieted diabetics by that over-indulgence in saccharine food, for which they have such a craving.

   1881 July 15, “The Lancets”, in The Australian Medical Journal, volume 3, page 321

   Succulent and sweet are the dainties of the East, and even the most blasee and battered of debs and the most dieted of dowagers will find something to make their eyes sparkle and their mouths water if you make your next party an Eastern one.

   1935, The Scottish Bookman - Issues 1-4

   The thankfully preserved sinker sketch of Having Wonderful Time. with a dieted thin Skelton, is a more streamlined look at the routine.

   2008, Wes Gehring, Red Skelton: The Mask Behind the Mask, page xxvi

2. well-fed; having or requiring extra nutrition.

   Then I say ye are a dieted horse for heaven.

   1878, Samuel Rutherford, Fourteen Communion Sermons, page 235

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   The wenches swear, he kisses like a giant still; And will ride his heats as cleanly as a dieted Gelding.

   1876, Hazlitt, Elvira, Or, The Worst Not Always True, page 129

   It is, however, a dieted grass, and must be treated as such, if you desire to cultivate it to reach perfection.

   1918 March, William Tucker, “Success in Turf Production”, in Golfers Magazine, volume 32, number 3, page 30

   Young rats fed on husked rice, refined casein, yeast, and 3 per cent. of butter from milk taken from a normally fed cow increased weight by 15 gm. in one month; whilst those fed in the same manner, but with 3 per cent. of butter from the milk of a dieted cow, increased in weight by 35 gm. in one month.

   1925, The Scottish Journal of Agriculture - Volume 8, page 337

3. Showing the effects of dieting; resulting from limited caloric intake.

   Her long slim back was straight and paltry in the modern fashion, a dieted back .

   1930, Rhys Davies, Rings on Her Fingers, page 237

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   Josepha decided that there was a lean look about her figure, a dieted slenderness rather than the natural delicacy of youth.

   1934, Olga Rosmanith, Picture People, page 237

   And she was so heartbreakingly frail, so courageous and mocking or courageous and earnest; the pallor wasn't all make-up, and from what her grandfather had said to him, the thinness of the arm his own arm closed on, wasn't all a dieted thinness.

   1942, Margaret Widdemer, Angela Comes Home, page 119

   It's natural if you are coming out of a dieted state to see a rapid surge in appetite as you begin refeeding.

   2013, Matt Stone, Diet Recovery 2, page 47

   The ideal was "a hard, lean body, a dieted or trained one, an upright, shoulders back, unrelaxed posture, tight rather than loose movement, tidiness in domestic arrangement and eating manners, privacy in relation to bowels, abstinence or at any rate planning in relation to appetites.

   2013, Paul Kivel, Living in the Shadow of the Cross

   Her hair was tight permed and blonde and her black plastic belt broad and close around a dieted waist.

   2014, Fay Weldon, The Cloning of Joanna May

4. figurativelyResulting from scarcity.

   The levee was social jambalaya, but it was also novelty. It proved appetizing enough to tickle the dieted palate of Richmond's exclusiveness.

   1909, Thomas Cooper De Leon, Belles, Beaux and Brains of the 60's, page 67

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   Obviously this sorded power of dull, "lust-dieted" appetite has not very much in common with Milton's blithe , caressing personification of pleasure, so fatal because outwardly so beautiful; though I do not doubt that Milton knew Ben Johson's Masque.

   1891, John Milton, Arthur Wilson Verity, Milton's Arcades and Comus, page xxxvii

   The miles of half-empy ^([sic]) shelves that will call for new goods when prices do begin to rise; the whirring wheels of factories set spinning frantically to supply the mammoth maw of a dieted demand;

   1932, The Textile Worker

5. figurativelyAbbreviated; reduced.

   why not diet our furniture to fit the dieted homes we were living in?

   1931, Furniture Record - Volume 63, page 54

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   There was a long note on it in The Month for February, 1939, but in case you haven't that or some better source of information at hand, we might have a dieted version now.

   1940, The Month at Goodspeed's Book Shop- Volume 12, page 191

   It is in a booklet under the English title, "Outline of Buddhism in Central Asia" (Moscow, 1968-Central Department of Oriental Literature), being the dieted paper presented to the International Conference on the History , Archaeology and Culture of Central Asia in the Kushan Period .

   1971, Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, page 6

   Furthermore, a round table discussions which will invited 4-6 experts will be transcribed and summarized for inclusion in the dieted volume as well.

   2018, Ronghuai Huang, Knshuk, Yanyan Li, TingWen Chang, “Workshop for Artificial Intelligence to Promote Quality and Equity in Education”, in Carolyn Penstein Rosé, Roberto Martínez-Maldonado, H. Ulrich Hoppe, editor, Artificial Intelligence in Education, page 556

   In concert with the Senior Commissariat Officer and Deputy Assistant Commissary-General Robinson, immediate steps were taken to organise a dieted field hospital.

   1884, Report of the Army Medical Department, Great Britain, page 266

6. Providing specialized dietary services, especially when addressing nutrition as an aspect of treatment.

   The British station hospital is, of course, a dieted institution and is otherwise self-contained.

   1924, The Army in India and Its Evolution, page 120

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   The hospital at Korti (No. 1 field-hospital) was made a dieted one on February 1st, the diets sanctioned being low, milk, chicken, roast, and entire.

   1885 April 25, “Our Troops At Korti”, in British Medical Journal, volume 1, page 862

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of diet