Past tense of 'ate'; consumed food (archaic or dialectal form used in some regional variations).
Simply the standard past tense of 'eat,' though the modern standard is 'ate.' The form 'ated' appears occasionally in dialectal speech or as a misformation in language learning.
Every language learner makes this mistake—'ated' sounds logical as a past tense (like walk→walked), but English is weird and gives us 'ate' instead, which linguists blame on Old English irregular verb chaos.
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