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dieting

dieting is the present participle and gerund of diet.

Meaning of diet

Verb

diet (third-person singular simple present diets, present participle dieting, simple past and past participle dieted)

  1. (intransitive) 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 I've lost some weight.
  2. (dated, transitive) To regulate the food of (someone); to put on a diet.
    • they will diet themselves, feed and live alone.
  3. (obsolete) To eat; to take one's meals.
    • Let him[…]diet in such places, where there is good company of the nation, where he travelleth.1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Travel”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC
  4. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to take food; to feed.
    • But partly led to diet my revenge […].c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...

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Noun

dieting (countable and uncountable, plural dietings)

  1. The practice of following a diet.
    • They found out that dieting can harm you if you do it wrong. She advised them to talk with a doctor before doing anything too extreme.
    • […] they think that diet cures chronic diseases, placed under the homoeopathic physician's care, though, under their care, with all their dietings, these very diseases were so intractable.1850, John Epps, Homoeopathy and Its Principles Explained, page 133

Forms of dieting

pluraldietings

Words formed from dieting

Questions about dieting

What does dieting mean?
Dieting means the practice of following a diet.
What is dieting the present participle and gerund of?
Dieting is the present participle and gerund of diet.
What part of speech is dieting?
Dieting is a noun.
What is the plural of dieting?
The plural of dieting is dietings.

Words near dieting in the dictionary

  1. dieticians
  2. dietics
  3. dieticyclidine
  4. dietine
  5. dietines
  6. dieting
  7. dietings
  8. dietist
  9. dietists
  10. dietitian
  11. dietitians

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