feed
/fiːd/ verb B1- To give (someone or something) food to eat. · Feed the dog every evening.
- To eat (usually of animals). · Spiders feed on gnats and flies.
- To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food. · Don't feed him too much; he's still a baby.· Feed the fish to the dolphins.
- To give to a machine to be processed. · Feed the paper gently into the document shredder.
- To supply (a machine) with something to be processed. · We got interesting results after feeding the computer with the new data.
- To satisfy, gratify, or minister to (a sense, taste, desire, etc.).
- To supply with something. · Springs feed ponds with water.
- To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle. · If grain is too forward in autumn, feed it with sheep.
He/she/it feeds · Past fed · Past participle fed · -ing form feeding
Verb forms
- Base form
- feed
- He/she/it
- feeds
- Past
- fed
- Past participle
- fed
- -ing form
- feeding
An irregular verb: learn its past and past participle by heart.
Phrasal verbs and expressions
- feed back To provide informational feedback to.
- feed into To be a tributary of another river or waterway.
- feed off To consume as part of a diet.
- feed on Of an animal, to take as food, to obtain regular nourishm...
- feed through To go through a process or location, producing a predicta...
- feed up To feed (a person or animal) until they are at a healthy ...
From the library
He fed the one for his table and kept the other for the sake of its song.
Having at last by guileful speeches succeeded in separating them, he attacked them without fear as they fed alone, and feasted on them one by one at his own leisure.
A WOLF saw a Goat feeding at the summit of a steep precipice, where he had no chance of reaching her.
To be sure, neither the Woodman nor the Scarecrow ever ate anything, but she was not made of tin nor straw, and could not live unless she was fed.
Other matches
- feed Food given to A1
- feed back To provide informational feedback to.
- feed into To be a tributary of another river or waterway.
- feed off To consume as part of a diet.
- feed on Of an animal, to take as food, to obtain regula...
- feed through To go through a process or location, producing ...
- feed up To feed
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