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Diet synonyms

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bread
Food in general, regarded as necessary for sustaining life:
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  1. Food in general, regarded as necessary for sustaining life:
  2. A staple food made from flour or meal mixed with other dry and liquid ingredients, usually combined with a leavening agent, and kneaded, shaped into loaves, and baked.
  3. Food generally
fare
Food available to be eaten
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  1. Food available to be eaten
  2. Food and drink; diet:
  3. The usual kind of diet
intake
Something, especially energy, taken in.
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  1. Something, especially energy, taken in.
  2. The quantity taken in.
  3. An act or instance of taking in: an intake of oxygen or food.
daily-bread
All those things, such as regular food and water, needed to sustain physical life.
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  1. All those things, such as regular food and water, needed to sustain physical life.
nutrition
The science or study of proper, balanced diet to promote health, esp. in human beings
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  1. The science or study of proper, balanced diet to promote health, esp. in human beings
  2. A source of nourishment; food.
  3. The scientific study of food and nourishment, including food composition, dietary guidelines, and the roles that various nutrients have in maintaining health.
regime
The period of time that a person or system is in power
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  1. The period of time that a person or system is in power
  2. A regulated system of diet, exercise, or medical treatment; a regimen.
  3. A way of organizing or managing something; a system:
fast
The act of fasting
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  1. The act of fasting
  2. A day or period of fasting
  3. The act or practice of abstaining from or eating very little food.
go-without
(Idiomatic) Be deprived of.
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  1. (Idiomatic) Be deprived of.
lose-weight
(Intransitive) to become less heavy.
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  1. (Intransitive) to become less heavy.
slim-down
To reduce one's weight; to become thinner.
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  1. To reduce one's weight; to become thinner.
reduce
To become reduced
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  1. To become reduced
  2. To bring into a certain order; systematize
  3. To bring to a specified undesirable state, as of weakness or helplessness:
abstain
To refrain from voting:
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  1. To refrain from voting:
  2. To hold oneself back; voluntarily do without; refrain (from)
  3. To keep oneself from doing, engaging in, or partaking of something; refrain:
tighten-one-s-belt
(Idiomatic) To be more frugal. To make difficult economic savings due to a lowering of expected income.
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  1. (Idiomatic) To be more frugal. To make difficult economic savings due to a lowering of expected income.
aliment
Something that supports or sustains.
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  1. Something that supports or sustains.
  2. Means of support; necessity
  3. Anything that nourishes; food
comestible
Something that can be eaten as food:
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  1. Something that can be eaten as food:
  2. Food
edible
Anything fit to be eaten; food
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  1. Anything fit to be eaten; food
esculent
Something fit for food, esp. a vegetable
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  1. Something fit for food, esp. a vegetable
fare
The usual kind of diet
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  1. The usual kind of diet
  2. Food available to be eaten
  3. Food and drink; diet:
food
Material, especially carbohydrates, fats, and proteins, that an organism uses for energy, growth, and maintaining the processes of life. Plants, algae, and some bacteria make their own food through photosynthesis, while animals and most other organisms obtain food by consuming other organisms or organic matter.
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  1. Material, especially carbohydrates, fats, and proteins, that an organism uses for energy, growth, and maintaining the processes of life. Plants, algae, and some bacteria make their own food through photosynthesis, while animals and most other organisms obtain food by consuming other organisms or organic matter.
  2. Something that nourishes or sustains in a way suggestive of physical nourishment:
  3. A specified kind of nourishment:
foodstuff
An instance of material which may be used as food.
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  1. An instance of material which may be used as food.
  2. Any substance used as food
meat
The essence, substance, or gist:
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  1. The essence, substance, or gist:
  2. The flesh of animals used as food, esp. the flesh of mammals or, often, of fowl
  3. Food; esp., solid food, as distinguished from drink
nourishment
A nourishing or being nourished
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  1. A nourishing or being nourished
  2. The act of nourishing or the state of being nourished
  3. Something that nourishes; food; nutriment
nurture
The act or process of raising or promoting the development of; training, educating, fostering, etc.
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  1. The act or process of raising or promoting the development of; training, educating, fostering, etc.
  2. (--- Biology) The sum of environmental influences and conditions acting on an organism, especially in contrast to heredity.
  3. Anything that nourishes; food; nutriment
nutriment
Anything that promotes growth, development, or good health
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  1. Anything that promotes growth, development, or good health
  2. Anything that nourishes; food
  3. A source of nourishment; food.
nutrition
The scientific study of food and nourishment, including food composition, dietary guidelines, and the roles that various nutrients have in maintaining health.
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  1. The scientific study of food and nourishment, including food composition, dietary guidelines, and the roles that various nutrients have in maintaining health.
  2. Anything that nourishes; nourishment; food
  3. A source of nourishment; food.
pabulum
Insipid intellectual nourishment:
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  1. Insipid intellectual nourishment:
  2. Nourishment for the mind
  3. Food or sustenance
pap
Any oversimplified or bland writing, ideas, etc.
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  1. Any oversimplified or bland writing, ideas, etc.
  2. Material lacking real value or substance:
  3. Any soft or semiliquid food for babies or invalids
provender
Dry food, such as hay, used as feed for livestock.
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  1. Dry food, such as hay, used as feed for livestock.
  2. Food or provisions.
provision
A clause, as in a legal document, agreement, etc., stipulating or requiring some specific thing; proviso; condition
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  1. A clause, as in a legal document, agreement, etc., stipulating or requiring some specific thing; proviso; condition
  2. The act of making preparations for a possible or future event or situation:
  3. Necessary supplies, such as food and clothing, as for a journey.
sustenance
Something that sustains something else; essential support:
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  1. Something that sustains something else; essential support:
  2. One's means of livelihood; maintenance; support
  3. Something, especially food, that sustains life or health:
victual
(Informal, Dial.) Articles of food, esp. when prepared for use
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  1. (Informal, Dial.) Articles of food, esp. when prepared for use
  2. (Now Chiefly Dial.) Food or other provisions
chow
Any of a breed of medium-sized dog, originally from China, with a thick, dark coat and a blue-black tongue
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  1. Any of a breed of medium-sized dog, originally from China, with a thick, dark coat and a blue-black tongue
  2. (Slang) Food or mealtime
eats
(Slang) Food.
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  1. (Slang) Food.
  2. Food, especially snacks.
grub
The thick wormlike larva of certain beetles and other insects.
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  1. The thick wormlike larva of certain beetles and other insects.
  2. (Old, Informal) A person who does menial or tedious work; drudge
  3. (Slang) Food.
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  • "I'm on a diet," he answered.

  • Diet looked like the best choice.

  • Diet was one method, but it had been long enough that she had forgotten specifics.

  • As for diet, the suggestion was to avoid refined carbohydrates and increase intake of antioxidant foods.

  • It is Nature's own bird which lives on buds and diet drink.

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