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1. (verb) feed, provender
food for domestic livestock

2. (verb) feed
provide as food
"Feed the guests the nuts"

3. (verb) feed, give
give food to
"Feed the starving children in India"; "don't give the child this tough meat"

4. (verb) feed
feed into; supply
"Her success feeds her vanity"

5. (verb) feed, feed in
introduce continuously
"feed carrots into a food processor"

6. (verb) feed
support or promote
"His admiration fed her vanity"

7. (verb) feed, eat
take in food; used of animals only
"This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat"; "What do whales eat?"

8. (verb) feed
serve as food for; be the food for
"This dish feeds six"

9. (verb) run, flow, feed, course
move along, of liquids
"Water flowed into the cave"; "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi"

10. (verb) prey, feed
profit from in an exploitatory manner
"He feeds on her insecurity"

11. (verb) feed, feast
gratify
"feed one's eyes on a gorgeous view"

12. (verb) fertilize, fertilise, feed
provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to
"We should fertilize soil if we want to grow healthy plants"

Definitions of 'FEED'

Webster 1913 Dictionary

1. (noun) FEED
that which is eaten; esp., food for beasts; fodder; pasture; hay; grain, ground or whole; as, the best feed for sheep

2. (noun) FEED
a grazing or pasture ground

3. (noun) FEED
an allowance of provender given to a horse, cow, etc.; a meal; as, a feed of corn or oats

4. (noun) FEED
a meal, or the act of eating

5. (noun) FEED
the water supplied to steam boilers

6. (noun) FEED
the motion, or act, of carrying forward the stuff to be operated upon, as cloth to the needle in a sewing machine; or of producing progressive operation upon any material or object in a machine, as, in a turning lathe, by moving the cutting tool along or in the work

7. (noun) FEED
the supply of material to a machine, as water to a steam boiler, coal to a furnace, or grain to a run of stones

8. (noun) FEED
the mechanism by which the action of feeding is produced; a feed motion

9. FEED
of Fee

10. (verb) FEED
to give food to; to supply with nourishment; to satisfy the physical huger of

11. (verb) FEED
to satisfy; grafity or minister to, as any sense, talent, taste, or desire

12. (verb) FEED
to fill the wants of; to supply with that which is used or wasted; as, springs feed ponds; the hopper feeds the mill; to feed a furnace with coal

13. (verb) FEED
to nourish, in a general sense; to foster, strengthen, develop, and guard

14. (verb) FEED
to graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle; as, if grain is too forward in autumn, feed it with sheep

15. (verb) FEED
to give for food, especially to animals; to furnish for consumption; as, to feed out turnips to the cows; to feed water to a steam boiler

16. (verb) FEED
to supply (the material to be operated upon) to a machine; as, to feed paper to a printing press

17. (verb) FEED
to produce progressive operation upon or with (as in wood and metal working machines, so that the work moves to the cutting tool, or the tool to the work)

18. (verb) FEED
to take food; to eat

19. (verb) FEED
to subject by eating; to satisfy the appetite; to feed one's self (upon something); to prey; -- with on or upon

20. (verb) FEED
to be nourished, strengthened, or satisfied, as if by food

21. (verb) FEED
to place cattle to feed; to pasture; to graze

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