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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

uneating en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + eating.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Not eating; that does not eat.
    • Beatrice went down beiow and lived there, unsleeping and uneating, like Agnes herself, but possessed by a kind of despair, and guilty horror... 1866, Margaret Oliphant Oliphant, Agnes:
    • Mattie came downstairs, hung uneating over her cakes, her throat too thick with worry about Gardiner Bent to swallow. 1966, Robie Macauley, Gallery of modern fiction: