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uneating

uneating adjective: not eating; that does not eat.

Adjective

uneating (not comparable)

  1. 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

Origin of uneating

From un- + eating.

Questions about uneating

What does uneating mean?
Uneating means not eating; that does not eat.
What part of speech is uneating?
Uneating is an adjective.

Words near uneating in the dictionary

  1. uneatableness
  2. uneatably
  3. uneaten
  4. uneath
  5. uneathes
  6. uneating
  7. uneats
  8. unebbed
  9. unebbing
  10. unebriate
  11. uneccentric

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