uneating

uneating

English

Etymology

un- +‎ eating

Adjective

uneating (not comparable)

1. Not eating; that does not eat.
   • 1866, Margaret Oliphant Oliphant, Agnes

     Beatrice went down beiow and lived there, unsleeping and uneating, like Agnes herself, but possessed by a kind of despair, and guilty horror...

   • 1966, Robie Macauley, Gallery of modern fiction

     Mattie came downstairs, hung uneating over her cakes, her throat too thick with worry about Gardiner Bent to swallow.