Grazed heathen avoided hospitals (5)
I believe the answer is:
eaten
'avoided hospitals' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both related to consumption as well as being past participle verbs.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?
'grazed heathen' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'grazed' could be 'ate' (I've seen this in another clue) and 'ate' is present in the answer.
The remaining letters 'en' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for eaten that I've seen before include "Consumed" , "dinners should be" , "Swallowed" , "dined" , "Polished off" .)