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feed

Nouns

• (n) food for domestic livestock provender,

Verbs

• (v) provide as food
  • Feed the guests the nuts
• (v) give food to
  • Feed the starving children in India
  • don't give the child this tough meat
  give,
• (v) feed into; supply
  • Her success feeds her vanity
• (v) introduce continuously
  • feed carrots into a food processor
  feed in,
• (v) support or promote
  • His admiration fed her vanity
• (v) take in food; used of animals only
  • This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat
  • What do whales eat?
  eat,
• (v) serve as food for; be the food for
  • This dish feeds six
• (v) move along, of liquids
  • Water flowed into the cave
  • the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi
  course, flow, run,
• (v) profit from in an exploitatory manner
  • He feeds on her insecurity
  prey,
• (v) gratify
  • feed one's eyes on a gorgeous view
  feast,
• (v) provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to
  • We should fertilize soil if we want to grow healthy plants
  fertilize, fertilise,

Synonyms

provender give feed in eat course flow run prey feast fertilize fertilise

Antonyms

famish starve

See also

brim over overflow well over run over overrun be due flow from

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