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ate one's dinners

ate one's dinners is the simple past of eat one's dinners.

Meaning of eat one's dinners

Verb

eat one's dinners (third-person singular simple present eats one's dinners, present participle eating one's dinners, simple past ate one's dinners, past participle eaten one's dinners)

  1. (obsolete) To study for the bar (to become a lawyer).

Questions about ate one's dinners

What is ate one's dinners the simple past of?
Ate one's dinners is the simple past of eat one's dinners.

Words near ate one's dinners in the dictionary

  1. ate lead
  2. ate like a bird
  3. ate like a horse
  4. ate like an animal
  5. ate one's cake and had it too
  6. ate one's dinners
  7. ate one's emotions
  8. ate one's feelings
  9. ate one's fill
  10. ate one's gun
  11. ate one's hat

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