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Type Words
Synonyms provender
Type of nutrient, food
Has types fodder, bird food, mash, mast, creep feed, cud, ensilage, bird feed, feed grain, fish meal, swill, birdseed, blood meal, cattle cake, corn gluten feed, oil cake, pet-food, pet food, petfood, pigswill, pigwash, rechewed food, silage, slop, slops
Type Words
Synonyms eat
Type of take, have, ingest, consume, take in
Has types suckle, browse, crop, graze, forage, pasture, range, raven
Verb group eat
Derivation feeder, feeding
Type Words
Synonyms prey
Type of exploit, work


He feeds on her insecurity.
Type Words
Synonyms give
Type of provide, ply, supply, cater
Has types lactate, wet-nurse, undernourish, aliment, swill, bottlefeed, breakfast, breastfeed, suckle, suck, spoonfeed, corn, crop, slop, dine, scavenge, regurgitate, range, lunch, inject, pasture, overfeed, nutrify, fodder, nurse, force-feed, nourish, give suck, malnourish, graze
Derivation feeding, feeder
Type Words
Synonyms feed in
Type of enclose, inclose, insert, introduce, put in, stick in
Derivation feeder


feed carrots into a food processor.
Type Words
Synonyms fertilise, fertilize
Type of enrich
Has types nitrify, topdress, dung
Type Words
Synonyms course, flow, run
Type of move
Has types gutter, gush, pour, flush, ooze, filter, jet, purl, whirlpool, eddy, dribble, run down, run off, run out, drain, seep, spill, stream, circulate, surge, swirl, tide, trickle, waste, well out, whirl


the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi.
Type Words
Synonyms feast
Type of regale, treat


feed one's eyes on a gorgeous view.
Type Words
Type of furnish, render, supply, provide
Derivation feeder


Her success feeds her vanity.
Type Words
Type of supply, ply, provide, cater
Derivation feeding
Type Words
Type of provide, supply, cater, ply


This dish feeds six.
Type Words
Type of advance, further, promote, boost, encourage

Examples of feed

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The fish effluents feed the plants, while the excess plant matter feed the fish.
From the stltoday.com
I have joined your feed and look forward to seeking more of your fantastic post.
From the orlandosentinel.com
A prompter sitting in the first row had to feed a hapless Myers countless lines.
From the bostonherald.com
Unlike several of the guests, Miller, of Garden Grove, was able to feed herself.
From the ocregister.com
Fortunately for the Pirates they will have somebody to feed their hitting beast.
From the stltoday.com
Condors are not the only birds to feed on the tainted carcasses, scientists say.
From the foxnews.com
Ponies, from what little I know of them, require feed, their own housing, space.
From the online.wsj.com
That feed appears to take input from people in Florida in order to ID the traps.
From the cnn.com
We obviously need the crowd to play their part and the players to feed off that.
From the telegraph.co.uk
More examples
  • Food for domestic livestock
  • Provide as food; "Feed the guests the nuts"
  • Give food to; "Feed the starving children in India"; "don't give the child this tough meat"
  • Feed into; supply; "Her success feeds her vanity"
  • Introduce continuously; "feed carrots into a food processor"
  • Support or promote; "His admiration fed her vanity"
  • Front-end loading (FEL), also referred to as pre-project planning (PPP) or front-end engineering design (FEED), is the process for conceptual development of processing industry projects. ...
  • Feed is a 2005 film directed by Brett Leonard. The plot involves a police investigation of the sexual fetish of feederism, where the 'feeder' will feed 'gainers' (a woman who gets sexual pleasure from gaining weight and eating).
  • Feed (2002) is a dystopian novel of the cyberpunk genre by M. T. (Matthew Tobin) Anderson. The story mostly revolves around a teenaged boy and his relationship with a girl. ...