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Definition: Eaten |
EatenAdjective1. Having been taken into the mouth for consumption. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "eaten" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Cannibalism is the act or practice of eating members of the same species, e.g. humans eating humans (sometimes called anthropophagy), or dogs eating dogs. Among humans this has been practiced by various tribal groups in the past in the Amazon Basin, Africa, Fiji, and New Guinea, usually in rituals connected to tribal warfare. The Chaco Canyon ruins of the Anasazi culture have been interpreted by some archaeologists as containing evidence of ritual cannibalism. Individual cases in other countries have been seen with mentally unstable persons, criminals, and, in unconfirmed rumors, by religious zealots. In America, the Donner party is a case of cannibalism due to hunger. In Ukraine, widespread cannibalism was common during the hungry years in the 1930s, but this horrible truth was kept secret until recently.
Non-human cannibalism
For some species, cannibalism under certain well-defined circumstances, such as the female black widow spider eating the male after mating, is believed to be a common, if not invariable, part of the life cycle. In vertebrates (except for many fish), cannibalism is not generally observed to be uniformly routine or widespread for any given species, but may develop in extremis such as captivity, or a desperate food shortage. For instance, a domestic sow may eat her newborn young, though this behavior has not been observed in the wild. It is also known that rabbits, mice, rats, or hamsters will eat their young if their nest is repeatedly threatened by predators. In some species adults are known to destroy and sometimes eat young of their species to whom they are not closely related--famously, the chimpanzees observed by Dr. Jane Goodall. Some of these observations have been questioned (for example by Stephen Jay Gould) as possible products of sloppy research. For example, while there are many observations of female praying mantises eating their mates after copulation, there are no known observations of this occurring in the wild; it has only been observed in captivity.
Cannibalism among humans
The accusation of cannibalism has historically been much more common than the act itself. During the years of British colonial expansion slavery was actually considered to be illegal, unless the people involved were so depraved that their conditions as slaves would be better than as free men. Demonstration of cannibalistic tendencies were considered evidence for this, and hence reports of cannibalism became widespread.Marvin Harris has analyzed cannibalism and other food taboos. He thinks that it was common among bands, but disappeared in the transition to states, the Aztecs being exception.
Other more contemporary reports have also been called into question. The well known case of mortuary cannibalism of the Fore tribe in New Guinea which resulted in the spread of the disease Kuru is well documented and not seriously questioned by modern anthropologists. This case, however, has also been questioned by those claiming that although post-mortem dismemberment was the practice during funeral rites, cannibalism was not. Marvin Harris theorizes that it happened during a famine period coincident with the arrival of Europeans and rationalized as a religious rite.
Fijian cannibalism is also generally accepted as historically factual.
The fictional history of Robinson Crusoe (fl. 1658-1695) described how the Caribs took their poor victims, and hit them with a mace. Paul Serre del Sagués, who was almost his contemporary, recorded the same of the Caribs of Costa Rica, but was more detailed: The victim was sacrificed by a blow to the back of their heads. Then the saman opened the chest by an obsidian knife, took the heart, and tasted it. Meanwhile his assistants cut up the body to eat it, and distributed grains of maize painted with blood as fetishes. (See Entierros Indígenas en Costa Rica in Revista de Costa Rica, Year III (San José, 1921: 71).
The cannibal name is a corruption of caribal, the Spanish word for Carib. Others (Samuel Purchas, Hakluytus Posthumus, Volume XIV, 1905: 451) claim that "Cannibal" meant "valiant man" in the language of the Caribs. Richard Hakluyt's Voyages introduced the word to English. Shakespeare transposed it, anagram-fashion, to name his monster servant in The Tempest 'Caliban'.
Cannibalism was quite common in each cardinal direction from Cocos Island. It was reported in Mexico, the flower wars of the Aztec Empire being the most massive manifestation of cannibalism. The friar Diego de Landa reported about Yucatan instances, Yucatan before and after the Conquest, translated from Relación de las cosas de Yucatan, 1566 (New York: Dover Publications, 1978: 4). Similarly, by Purchas from Popayan, Colombia, and from the Marquesas Islands of Polynesia, where man-eating was called long-pig (Alanna King, ed., Robert Louis Stevenson in the South Seas, London: Luzac Paragon House, 1987: 45-50). It is recorded about the natives of the captaincy of Seregipe in Brazil, They eat human flesh when they can get it, and if a woman miscarries devour the abortive immediately. If she goes her time out, she herself cuts the navel-string with a shell, which she boils along with the secondine, and eats them both. (See E. Bowen, 1747: 532.)
However, when about 1972, a medium-sized airplane crashed in the Andes near the border between Chile and Argentina, after several weeks of starvation and struggle for survival, the numerous survivors began to eat the body of the captain and others. Two men of the survivors of the airplane crash decided to venture down in the ice and snow, and finally saw a man with a horse, who helped to take them the a telephone. A military helicopter of Chile arrived and saved the rest of the people.
Cannibalism is known to have been practised by the participants of the First Crusade. Some of the crusaders fed on the bodies of their dead opponents after the capture of the Arab town of Ma’arat. It was also practised by foraging parties on the later stages of the march on Jerusalem. In both cases, it seems possible that it may have been due to a combination of causes; in addition to hunger, there was also the feverish state of mind of the crusaders, and perhaps a desire to terrorise their opponents. Some Crusaders refused to eat the bodies of fellow Christians, but were not adverse to eating the bodies of defeated Muslims.
Sir John Franklin's lost polar expedition and Donner Party of the American Westward Migration were example of human cannibalism.
Cannibalism also took place during the WWII siege of Leningrad. [1] [1] [1]
Cannibalism in Ukraine
In the 1930s, during the widespread hunger in Ukraine, cannibalism was very common. According to BBC, children were eaten by their parents, sposes sometimes killed each other for food. Some 9 million people died during the two worst years of hunger, but many deaths were actually due to cannibalism. Ukraine is still a country in the world with the highest number of living cannibals.
'Cannibalism' as cultural libel
A skeptical reading of unsubstantiated reports of cannibalism may identify a disproportionate rate of cases of cannibalism among cultures that are already otherwise despised. The 'Blood libel' that accused Jews of eating Christian children is merely the most notorious example. In antiquity, Greek reports of anthropophagi were related to distant, non-Hellenic barbarians, or else relegated in myth to the 'primitive' chthonic world that preceded the coming of the Olympian gods. In the modern world, such libels must be presented as 'reports' in order to be believed. In 1994, printed booklets reported that in a Yugoslavian concentration camp of Manjaca the Bosnian refugees were forced to eat each other's bodies. These reports await confirmation.External links
William Arens, The Man-Eating Myth (1979), downplays cannibalism as an approved, institutional form of behavior and argued that the description by one group of people of another people as cannibals is an ideological and rhetorical device to establish moral superiority over them.
- Harry J. Brown, 'Hans Staden among the Tupinambas.' A German shipwrecked among a Brazilian tribe made them famous for their cannibalism and cruelty, sensationally depicted in crude woodcuts (1557), in an early captivity narrative. 'Then they butchered the corpses of the vanquished enemies and cooked them on a wooden barbecue called a boucan, while old women dabbed their fingers in the fat dripping away from the flames, old men reclined contentedly in hammocks, and children played ball with the discarded heads and plucked out their eyes as if they were plucking cherries.' "These popular visual representations of Native Americans were shaped as much by political and religious conflicts in the Old World as by actual observations of the people of the New World." says Brown.
- Markman Ellis, "Crusoe, cannibalism and empire." Robinson Crusoe's fearful ruminations on cannibals, and Capt. Cook's reports of Maori cannibalism, which were convincing to many 18th and 19th century Europeans, though not to all modern anthropologists, set into the context of colonial empire-building.
Conversely, Montaigne's essay "Of cannibals" introduced a new multicultural note in European civilization. Montaigne wrote that "one calls 'barbarism' whatever he is not accustomed to."
Sexualized cannibalism (fantasies and real)
The wide use of the Internet has highlighted that thousands of people harbor sexualized cannibalistic fantasies. Discussion forums and user groups exist for the exchange of pictures and stories of such fantasies. Typically, people in such forums fantasize about eating being eaten by members of their sexually preferred gender. As such, the cannibalism fetish or paraphilia is one of the most extreme sexual fetishes.Rarely ever do such fetishes leave the realm of fantasies (aided by modern technology for photo modification or completely computer generated images). There have been extreme cases of real life sexualized cannibalism, such as those of the serial killers Jeffrey Dahmer, Sascha Spesiwtsew and Fritz Haarmann ("the Butcher of Hannover"). In December 2002, a highly unusual case was uncovered in the town of Rotenburg in Hessen, Germany. In 2001 Armin M., an 41-year-old computer administrator, had posted messages like his more recent ones (see messages) in Internet newsgroups on the subject of cannibalism, repeatedly looking for "a young Boy, between 18 and 25 y/o" to butcher. At least one of his requests was successful: Jürgen B., another computer administrator, offered himself to be slaughtered. The two men agreed on a meeting. Jürgen B. was, with his consent, killed and eaten by Armin M. Before killing him, Armin M. cut off his victim's penis, and the two men ate it together. The whole act was recorded on video.
This is not the first consensual killing mediated through the Internet, but it is the first such known case of consensual cannibalism.
The existing cases of sexualized cannibalism involved homosexuals to a disproportionate extent. Some observers have linked this to the higher likelihood of homosexuals to suppress their sexual urges. Armin M., for example, came from a conservative family, and in spite of having homosexual fantasies, had several unsuccessful heterosexual relationships.
Cannibal themes in myth
Whether modern humans ate the Neanderthals they undoubtedly killed is not proven. On a primitive level, ritually eating part of the slaughtered enemy is a way of assuming the life-spirit of the departed. In a funeral ritual this may also be done with a respected member of one's own clan, ensuring immortality. Cannibal ogresses appear in folklore around the world, the witch in 'Hansel and Gretel' being the most immediate example. On the mythological level the cannibal mother is magnified to a universal principal, such as the Hindu goddess Kali, the Black One. The opening of Hell, the Zoroastrian contribution to Western mythology, is a mouth. According to Catholic dogma, bread and wine are transubstantiated into Jesus Christ's real blood and flesh, which is then distributed by the priest to the faithful.
Cannibalism in fiction
Some examples of cannibalism in fiction are:
- Hannibal Lecter (of the Silence of the Lambs series of novels)
- Patrick Bateman (American Psycho).
See also:
- Androphagi
External links
- BBC article about German cannibalism case
- In Defence of Cannibalism. 1982 essay by philosopher Richard Routley which examines whether and under what circumstances (e.g. eating those who died from natural causes) cannibalism might be morally acceptable.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Cannibalism."
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Eating is human activity of intaking food and its digestion. Eating mostly is to eat meal but can happen in between mealtime.Eating is individual activity; unless you are infant, individual grabs foodstuff and bring it to his mouth.
Being hungry is feeling the physiological need to eat. Having appetite is desiring the act of eating (also used figuratively). Other reasons for starting a meal at a particular time are habit, agreement with others, or not having an oppportunity later on.
Eating can be very emotional. Some people having trouble with eating are called eating disorder.
Lack of available food can cause famine or starvation. Some people intentionally take no food for certain period of time mostly for religous reasons.
See also food, potluck, restaurant.
Meal is coarsely ground grain or other seed, coarser than flour.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Eating."
| Antonym: uneaten (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Affections | Adjective: affected, characterized, formed, molded, cast; attempered, tempered; framed; predisposed; prone, inclined; having a bias; Noun: tinctured with, imbued with, penetrated with, eaten up with. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Eaten |
| English words defined with "eaten": eaten up. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "eaten": Tridacna. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Yeah, but it tastes like every other fish I've ever eaten. (Enemy of the State; writing credit: David Marconi) Let it alone, sir. He hasn't eaten in a few days (Black Hawk Down; writing credit: Ken Nolan) I wish the wolves had eaten you (Mononoke-hime; writing credit: Neil Gaiman; Hayao Miyazaki) In two years I have been to nine different schools, eaten in nine cafeterias (Casper; writing credit: Sherri Stoner; Deanna Oliver) I don't think I've ever eaten a fish (Finding Nemo; writing credit: Andrew Stanton) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Eaten Alive: A Tasteful Revenge (1999) Eat Or Be Eaten (1986) Eaten Alive (1985) | |
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 | North Inlet - Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. This tiny sand hopper or amphipod shrimp, Gammarus sp., lives among and under marsh detritus, which it consumes. It is eaten by small fishes and shorebirds. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |  | These foods are typical of those eaten by the 12 volunteers during a study of how plant-rich diets affect blood lipids, antioxidant defenses, and colon function. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |
 | The returned prodigal shows signs of relapse : Old Observer (who has several other aliases)--"what is the fatted calf to a party that has eaten husks for twenty years. Give him the whole herd". Credit: Library of Congress. |  | That million dollar a day loaf that is never eaten / Gray. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | A Christmas catastrophe : please, sir, the rat entree has escaped and eaten the turkey. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Inspecting a potato plant eaten by grasshoppers. Miles City, Montana. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Price list of staples eaten by farmers in Wagoner County, Oklahoma. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Corn, drought-stricken and eaten off by grasshoppers. Near Russelville, Arkansas. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Drought cattle at the stockyards. These cattle are distinctly below average. Billings, Montana. Ranchers are unloading their herds before they get too thin. Grasshoppers have eaten up what little grass there was before drought. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Ginger Bread Man" by Andy Taylor Commentary: "Photo of a half eaten ginger bread man." | "Beach drum" by Paul Fris Commentary: "Rusty oil drum waiting to be washed away or eaten by the rust-bugs. Chrissi, Greece." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Aesop | A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. |
Antisthenes | As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion. |
Thomas Fuller | Eaten bread is soon forgotten. |
Thomas Jefferson | We rarely repent of having eaten too little. |
Thomas Szasz | In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined. |
William Shakespeare | He hath eaten me out of house and home. |
| Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love. | |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | He looked round at us, but said nothing till he had cracked and eaten the nut. |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | These supplied material for petty activity to a mind that would otherwise have been eaten up with rust |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | I must eat or be eaten, and I choose to eat. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Men who have created new fruits in the world cannot create a system whereby their fruits may be eaten. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | The fruits eaten temperately need not make us ashamed of our appetites, nor interrupt the worthiest pursuits |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | In most cases, these foods can be eaten in limited amounts. (references) | |
Fruit can act as a natural laxative and should be eaten sparingly. (references) | ||
Without villi, a person becomes malnourished--regardless of the quantity of food eaten. (references) | ||
Economic History | Ghana | It is eaten primarily as bread, which has recently become more of a staple food for Ghanaians. (references) |
Egypt | About half a million MT of the white corn is bought by GASC at LE 630/MT (in 2000) and the rest is either eaten by humans, or fed in small scale operations to cattle and chickens. (references) | |
Travel | Costa Rica | Seafood is perfectly safe when properly cooked but it should never be eaten raw. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | TURKEY, n. A large bird whose flesh when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude. Incidentally, it is pretty good eating. |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | As a matter of fact, I want a meal that can be eaten without arms or even teeth. |
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| "Eaten" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 99.64% of the time. "Eaten" is used about 1,657 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 99.64% | 1,651 | 5,055 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 0.3% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 0.06% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,657 | N/A |
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Expressions using "eaten": be eaten ♦ devoured eaten uppredicate ♦ eaten up ♦ eaten up with ♦ eaten vs uneaten. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "eaten": eaten-looking. | |
Ending with "eaten": half-eaten, worm-eaten. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "eaten"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | مأكول (eatable), صالح للأ كل (edible). (various references) | |
Chinese | 吃 (Eat, Eating, eats). (various references) | |
Danish | taeret af rust (corroded, eaten away, scored), skaerefast poelse (sausage normally eaten in slices). (various references) | |
Dutch | worst welke gewoonlijk in plakjes wordt geconsumeerd (sausage normally eaten in slices), ingevreten (corroded, eaten away, scored), ingeteerd (corroded, eaten away, scored), aangevreten (corroded, eaten away, scored). (various references) | |
French | mangeable (eatable), mangés, mangées, mangée, mangé, bon à manger (eatable). (various references) | |
German | gegessen, gefressen (guzzled, munched). (various references) | |
Greek | διαβρωμένος (corroded, eaten away, rusty, scored). (various references) | |
Hebrew | אכול (consumption, digestion). (various references) | |
Hungarian | evett, kimar (ate, erode, to corrode, to eat, to eat away, to erode, to fret), kiesz (ate, to eat), étkezik (ate, dine, eat, mess, to board, to dine, to eat, to fare, to take a meal). (various references) | |
Italian | mangiato, Manciato. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 賞味期限 (best if eaten by this date). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しょうみきげん (best if eaten by this date). (various references) | |
Korean | 먹는. (various references) | |
Manx | eeit. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eatenay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | salsicha e salsichão habitualmente consumidos em fatias (sausage normally eaten in slices). (various references) | |
Romanian | participiu trecut de la eat. (various references) | |
Russian | есть (ate, aye aye, eat, eating, take, there are, there been, there is been). (various references) | |
Scottish | strùthan (cake made on St. Michael's eve and eaten on his day). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | particip proš. od eat. (various references) | |
Spanish | pp de eat, comido (taken). (various references) | |
Swedish | uppäten, ätit. (various references) | |
Welsh | enllyn (relish eaten with bread). (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | adesa. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 9, Verse 17 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Artwn krufiwn hdewV ayasqe kai udatoV klophV glukerou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Aquae furtivae dulciores sunt et panis absconditus suavior |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Stoln watris ben swettere, and hid bred more swete. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Drink taken without right is sweet, and food in secret is pleasing. |
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| Language | Proverbs Chapter 9, Verse 17 |
| Cebuano | Matam-is ang kinawat nga mga tubig, Ug lamian ang tinapay nga pagakan-on sa tago. |
| Chinese | 偷 來 的 水 是 甜 的 、 暗 喫 的 餅 是 好 的 。 |
| Croatian | "Kradena je voda slatka i ugodno je potajno jesti kruh." |
| Danish | Stjålen Drik er sød, lønligt Brød er lækkert! |
| Dutch | De gestolen wateren zijn zoet, en het verborgen brood is liefelijk. |
| Finnish | "Varastettu vesi on makeata, ja salattu leipä on suloista". |
| French | Les eaux dérobées sont douces, Et le pain du mystère est agréable! |
| German | "Die gestohlenen Wasser sind süß, und das verborgene Brot schmeckt wohl." |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | "Air curian rasanya manis, dan makan sembunyi-sembunyi lebih enak." |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Bahwa air curian itu manis rasanya dan roti larangan itu sedap. |
| Italian | «Le acque furtive sono dolci, il pane preso di nascosto è gustoso». |
| Maori | He reka te wai tahae, a he ahuareka te taro kai huna. |
| Norwegian | Stjålet vann er søtt, og brød som etes i lønndom, smaker herlig. |
| Portuguese | As águas roubadas são doces, e o pão comido às ocultas é agradável. |
| Rumanian | ,,Apele furate sknt dulci, wi pknea luatq pe ascuns este plqcutq!`` |
| Russian | `ЧПДЩ ЛТБДЕОЩЕ УМБДЛЙ, Й ХФБЕООЩК ИМЕВ РТЙСФЕО`. |
| Spanish | "Las aguas hurtadas son dulces, y el pan comido en oculto es delicioso." |
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Derivations | |
Words ending with "eaten": beaten, browbeaten, greaten, miseaten, neaten, outeaten, overbeaten, overeaten, threaten, unbeaten, undereaten, uneaten, wheaten. (additional references) | |
Words containing "eaten": greatened, greatening, greatens, neatened, neatening, neatens, nonthreatening, threatened, threatener, threateners, threatening, threateningly, threatens, unthreatening, wheatens. (additional references) | |
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"Eaten" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aeterna, aten, Auten, daten, Eaden, Earen, Eastden, eastem, Eastend, eastex, Eastney, eatem, eatent, eatern, eathen, Eathens, eatoni, Eautel, eaven, eerate, Einen, eite, Eitzen, Elagen, entlen, Eothen, epatant, Ertan, etae, etain, etan, Eten, ethen, etien, etten, euen, Eupen, Eutin, exalten, exten, eyate, eytan, gaten, Ijafen, Ikatan, Jatene, katen, Ratjen, Reiten, seaten, Seiten, Sekaten, weaten, Zeiten. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "eaten" (pronounced ē"tun) |
| 4 | ē" t u n | beaten, Seton, sweeten, unbeaten, wheaten. |
| 3 | -t u n | fatten, actin, badminton, batten, begotten, biotin, bitten, Boston, boughten, Bouton, brighten, bulletin, Burton, button, Canton, capstan, captain, carton, certain, charlatan, chieftain, clandestine, cosmopolitan, cotton, craton, curtain, Dalton, dentin, dishearten, enlighten, exoskeleton, flatten, forgotten, fountain, frighten, frostbitten, gelatin, gluten, gotten, guncotton, handwritten, hearten, heighten, highfalutin, intermountain, intestine, jetton, kindergarten, kitten, lighten, litten, lovastatin, Manhattan, marten, Martin, Melton, metropolitan, misbegotten, mitten, molten, mountain, mutton, nekton, Newton, overwritten, Parton, Patten, phytoplankton, piston, plankton, plantain, platen, pleasing, ponton, predestine, prolactin, puritan, rewritten, rotten, Samaritan, satin, Sexton, shorten, Singleton, skeleton, smitten, spartan, straighten, sultan, tartan, teston, threaten, tighten, Titan, Triton, tungsten, typewritten, unbutton, uncertain, underwritten, unwritten, verboten, wanton, whiten, written. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: enate. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-n-t" | |
-1 letter: ante, etna, neat, teen. | |
-2 letters: ane, ant, ate, eat, eta, nae, nee, net, tae, tan, tea, tee, ten. | |
-3 letters: ae, an, at, en, et, na, ne, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-n-t" | |
+1 letter: anteed, atween, beaten, cetane, enates, entera, ethane, lateen, neaten, neater, negate, sateen, senate, tenace, teniae. | |
+2 letters: acetone, arenite, beneath, betaine, betaken, canteen, catenae, cementa, centare, cetanes, crenate, cuneate, dentate, earnest, earthen, eastern, elegant, emanate, enacted, enemata, entases, enteral, entreat, etamine, eternal, etesian, ethanes, gatemen, grantee, greaten, haptene, hearten, heathen, heptane, kantele, lateens, latened, leanest, lethean, lineate, manatee, matinee, meanest, meatmen, methane, naivete, navette, nearest, neatens, neatest, negated, negater, negates, neonate, nervate, penates, pennate, pentane, phenate, ratteen, reagent, reenact, retaken, retinae, sateens, sejeant, senates, sensate, standee, taeniae, teenage, teleman, teleran, tenable, tenaces, tentage, ternate, terrane, thenage, trainee, uneaten, ventage, veteran, wheaten. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Images: Digital Art 8. Quotations: Familiar | 9. Quotations: Fiction 10. Quotations: Non-fiction 11. Quotations: Spoken 12. Usage Frequency | 13. Expressions 14. Expressions: Internet 15. Translations: Modern 16. Translations: Ancient | 17. Bible Trace 18. Derivations 19. Rhymes 20. Anagrams | 21. Bibliography |
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