reducing diet
- noun
- /rɪˈduːsɪŋ daɪət/
:
dieta de reducción
- His reducing diet helped him lose weight and feel more energetic than ever before.
Examples
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The fairly recently launched blog Leptiburnreview.com has put together an impartial Leptiburn review after investigating all relevant aspects of this well-known fat-reducing diet pill.
Blog text (2) -
After all, lean could be said to be akin to a reducing diet without the starvation but with great results.
Academic text (2005) -
Many people have found success with a reducing diet that focuses on whole foods rather than processed items.
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She is following a reducing diet to achieve her fitness goals and improve her overall health.
Synonyms
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2.5
An eating plan that has little fat and more foods like bread or meat
2
3.0
A way of eating that limits calories to help lose weight or improve health
Antonyms
How Restrictive
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- Specialized
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7.5
- Specialized
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5.1
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a diet intended to promote weight loss' is directly compositional: 'reducing' (causing reduction/weight loss) modifies 'diet' (a planned way of eating). This participial modifier pattern is a standard and cross-linguistically common construction, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words should be able to infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Reducing diet comes from the simple idea that reducing means making less and diet means what you eat. Imagine cutting down foods high in fat and sugar so your body becomes smaller, and that's why a reducing diet is a plan to eat less to 'lose weight'.