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Definition of Dieting
1. Noun. The act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods).
Generic synonyms: Fast, Fasting
Derivative terms: Diet, Diet, Dietary, Dietician, Diet, Diet
Definition of Dieting
1. Verb. (present participle of diet) When not else specified, it usually refers to following a weight control diet. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dieting
1. diet [v] - See also: diet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dieting
Literary usage of Dieting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Forty years in the wilderness of pills and powders, or, The cogitations and by William Andrus Alcott (1859)
"He said he felt very bad indeed, and that he had been dieting for a long time.
... Admitting this to be dieting, it is, at least, such a kind of dieting as ..."
2. A Dictionary of All Officers, who Have Been Commissioned, Or Have Been by Charles Kitchell Gardner (1853)
"Aid de C. to Colo Doniphan and dieting, in battle of Sacramento. ... 47 : dieting,
in battle of Cerro Gordo: bvt Major "for gal. and mer. cond. in battles ..."
3. The Statutes at Large of South Carolina by South Carolina, Thomas Cooper, David James McCord (1839)
"... for such detention and dieting. II. And be it further enacted by the authority
aforesaid, That from and immediately after the passing of this Act it ..."
4. Diet in Health and Disease by Julius Friedenwald, John Ruhräh (1919)
"APPENDIX WAE dieting The problem of war dieting depends very largely upon the
amount and kind of foods available and the number of individuals to be fed. ..."
5. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by John Beauchamp Jones (1866)
"dieting something;,—whether good or evil, I did not stay to learn. But I thought
such maps ought not to be shown in the public hall of the department. ..."
6. Lectures on auto-intoxication in disease, or, Self-poisoning of the individual by Charles Bouchard, Sir Thomas Oliver (1906)
"The dieting of patients in typhoid fever and other long fevers.——Didactic summary
of my treatment of typhoid fever. Statistical results. ..."
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