fed
/ˈfɛd/ noun A2- A federal government officer or official. · That corrupt fed was caught taking bribes from a mobster!
- A police officer.
- The federal government of the nation one resides in. · Salmon were becoming scarce in the river until the feds stepped in.
Plural feds
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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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.
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.
He gave his own goats just sufficient food to keep them alive, but fed the strangers more abundantly in the hope of enticing them to stay with him and of making them his own.
As long as the war lasted, he looked upon him as his fellow-helper in all emergencies and fed him carefully with hay and corn.
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