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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
uneaten
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
food
▪ Remove this rubbish, old pieces of sugared cotton-wool and other remains of uneaten food.
▪ We've got preliminary reports on the dishes of the uneaten food too.
▪ Feed little and often thus preventing a build up of uneaten food on the base of the tank.
▪ Never let uneaten food remain in the system.
▪ Overfeeding just before departure is also not advisable as any uneaten food could pollute the water.
▪ I intended to feed a certain amount of high protein food and the dishes stopped the uneaten food settling in the gravel.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Any foods left uneaten must be removed after this time.
▪ But they have to send some of it back to the kitchen, uneaten.
▪ Refrigerate uneaten portion and reheat covered.
▪ Remove this rubbish, old pieces of sugared cotton-wool and other remains of uneaten food.
▪ The mess of pizza fragments, uneaten chips, beer-cans, papers, had been swept into the litter bin.
▪ We've got preliminary reports on the dishes of the uneaten food too.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wiktionary
uneaten

a. Not eaten

WordNet
uneaten

adj. not eaten or used up; "gave the dog the uneaten remnants of the roast" [ant: eaten]

Usage examples of "uneaten".

He picked up one of the uneaten crullers and twisted it with both hands until it broke into sticky chunks.

Pink singing scallops were an uneaten oddity, mussel cultivation was unknown, geoducks were spurned by everyone but a few fishermen, and the salmon caviar was shipped abroad.

Was Harrison Houk some part of the reason for the uneaten banquet spoiling in the refrigerator?

Melyssan said, staring unhappily down at her manchet, grown soggy with her uneaten dinner.

Mother Smith turned to speak to Betty Raye, but she had disappeared, leaving most of her breakfast uneaten.

He scraped the uneaten food from his plate, then swilled the plate and his knife and fork in the tub of soapless cold water that was provided for them to wash their dinner-things in.

Someone had chucked a polystyrene box half-filled with uneaten chicken tikka into our porch.

The lady had retired to her chamber, and the baron had passed a supperless and sleepless night, stalking about his apartments till an advanced hour of the morning, when hunger compelled him to summon into his presence the spoils of the buttery, which, being the intended array of an uneaten wedding feast, were more than usually abundant, and on which, when the knight and the friar entered, he was falling with desperate valour.

The great four-poster bed was a tumult of soft quilts, and there was an uneaten avocado on a silver tray and undrunk liquor in a jar.

The messman pattered into the empty wardroom and studied the uneaten sandwiches with disdain.

You scrape uneaten food off the dishes and into the disposal by hand, rinse the dishes, presoak them, stack them in a rack, and load the rack into the dishwashing machine, which involves bending down almost to floor level with the full rack, which I would guess at about fifteen to twenty pounds, held out in front of you.

Walking away from the restaurant's chilled cube of air, he couldn't help but notice the colorful composts of uneaten food that filled its numerous cans, and as he continued his eastward trek, he realized he'd have to quickly invent some sort of nutritious idea.

Walking away from the restaurant's chilled cube of air, he couldn't help but notice the colorful composts of uneaten food that filled its nu­merous cans, and as he continued his eastward trek, he realized he'd have to quickly invent some sort of nutritious idea.

Yet sure I am of this, that no one living creature corrupteth without the production of another, as we may see by ourselves, whose flesh doth alter into lice, and also in sheep for excessive numbers of flesh flies, if they be suffered to lie unburied or uneaten by the dogs and swine, who often and happily present such needless generations.

A dozen chance gestures indicated the torment of her spirit——the constant rapping of her knife against the table, her bread crumbed to pieces but uneaten, the frequent change from posture to posture of her full and flexible figure, shifting through that broad range of attitude——the very gamut of gracefulness——familiar to Italian women.