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feed on

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. feed on, feed uponverb

    be sustained by

    "He fed on the great ideas of her mentor"

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  1. feed on

    Feed on generally means to consume something for nourishment and survival. Though it's often used to describe the eating habits of animals, it can also be used metaphorically to denote the intake of various forms of physical, intellectual, or emotional sustenance.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of feed on in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of feed on in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of feed on in a Sentence

  1. Rafaela Lamprou:

    It started with men who were interested in bodybuilding, they say it is good for building muscle mass. But then I started to get enquiries from men with fetishes. Now I breast-feed on demand.

  2. Aeschylus:

    I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

  3. Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket:

    This practice is treating us like slave labor and it will only result in officers getting sick or injured by assaultive inmates, who feed on their vulnerabilities.

  4. Valentina Mella:

    Koalas have been alleged to never drink free water in the wild, or to drink only occasionally. Drinking behavior has often been considered unusual and attributed to disease or to severe heat stress, koalas were thought to gain the majority of the water that they require from the moisture content in the leaves that they feed on and to drink water unintentionally in the wild by eating wet leaves after rain, or when dew is present on the leaf surface.

  5. Peter Learpanai:

    These things are in their millions and will eat all the vegetation here. Our animals will not have anything to feed on, the government needs to get serious about fighting them.

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