Feed

Quick meaning: Feed is a verb meaning (transitive) To give (someone or something) food to eat.

Meaning

(transitive) To give (someone or something) food to eat.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive) To eat (usually of animals).
2. (ditransitive) To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food.
3. (transitive) To give to a machine to be processed.
4. (transitive) To supply (a machine) with something to be processed.
5. (transitive, figurative) To satisfy, gratify, or minister to (a sense, taste, desire, etc.).
6. (transitive) To supply with something.
7. (transitive) To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle.

Example Sentences

Feed the dog every evening.

If thine enemy hunger, feed him.

Spiders feed on gnats and flies.

Don't feed him too much; he's still a baby.

Word Forms

• feeds
• feeding

Synonyms for feed

Depending on context, synonyms include nourish, feast, give, prey, provender, grub.

Antonyms for feed

Common opposites include starve.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include provender, feast, eat, fertilize, prey, grub.

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