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| NOUN | 1 | feed, provender | Food for domestic livestock |
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| VERB | 1 | feed | Provide as food |
| 2 | feed, give | Give food to | |
| 3 | feed | Feed into | |
| 4 | feed, feed in | Introduce continuously | |
| 5 | feed | Support or promote | |
| 6 | feed, eat | Take in food | |
| 7 | feed | Serve as food for | |
| 8 | feed, run, flow, course | Move along, of liquids | |
| 9 | feed, prey | Profit from in an exploitatory manner | |
| 10 | feed, feast | Gratify | |
| 11 | feed, fertilize, fertilise | Provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to |
| Sounds | fiy'd |
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| Rhymes | accede, accompanied, agreed, and 107 more rhymes in iyd... |
| Meaning | Food for domestic livestock. |
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| Synonyms | provender |
| Broader | food, nutrient |
| Narrower | blood meal; corn gluten feed; cattle cake; creep feed; fodder; feed grain; eatage, forage, pasture, pasturage, grass; silage, ensilage; oil cake; slop, slops, swill, pigswill, pigwash; mash; cud, rechewed food; bird feed, bird food, birdseed; petfood, pet-food, pet food; mast; fish meal |
| Verbs | feed; feed |
| Meaning | Provide as food. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody something; Somebody ----s something to somebody |
| Model | They feed the animals |
| Examples | "Feed the guests the nuts" |
| Broader | provide, supply, ply, cater |
| Nouns | feeding |
| Meaning | Give food to. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody |
| Model | They feed the food to the people; They feed the people the food |
| Examples | "Feed the starving children in India" |
| Synonyms | give |
| Contrary | starve, famish |
| Cause to | eat |
| Broader | provide, supply, ply, cater |
| Narrower | dine; scavenge; fodder; slop, swill; regurgitate; corn; undernourish, malnourish; overfeed; spoonfeed; force-feed; lunch; breakfast; breastfeed, bottle-feed, suckle, suck, nurse, wet-nurse, lactate, give suck; bottlefeed; inject; nutrify, aliment, nourish; range; crop, graze, pasture |
| Entailed by | board; fatten, fat, flesh out, fill out, plump, plump out, fatten out, fatten up |
| Nouns | feeder; feeding |
| Meaning | Feed into. Supply. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s something |
| Examples | "Her success feeds her vanity" |
| Broader | supply, provide, render, furnish |
| Nouns | feeder |
| Meaning | Introduce continuously. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something PP; Somebody ----s something with something |
| Examples | "feed carrots into a food processor" |
| Synonyms | feed in |
| Broader | insert, enclose, inclose, stick in, put in, introduce |
| Nouns | feeder |
| Meaning | Support or promote. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
| Broader | promote, advance, boost, further, encourage |
| Meaning | Take in food. Used of animals only. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Something is ----ing PP |
| Model | The animals feed |
| Synonyms | eat |
| Similar to | eat |
| Broader | consume, ingest, take in, take, have |
| Narrower | forage; raven; suckle; crop, browse, graze, range, pasture |
| Nouns | feeder; feed; feeding |
| Meaning | Serve as food for. Be the food for. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something |
| Examples | "This dish feeds six" |
| Broader | provide, supply, ply, cater |
| Nouns | feed |
| Meaning | Move along, of liquids. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Something is ----ing PP |
| Examples | "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi" |
| Synonyms | run, flow, course |
| Caused by | flush; flow; pour |
| Broader | move |
| Narrower | flush; jet, gush; tide, surge; circulate; eddy, purl, whirlpool, swirl, whirl; waste, run off; run down; pour; spill, run out; stream, well out; trickle, dribble, filter; drain, run out; seep, ooze; gutter |
| Entailed by | overflow, overrun, well over, run over, brim over |
| Meaning | Profit from in an exploitatory manner. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something |
| Examples | "He feeds on her insecurity" |
| Synonyms | prey |
| Broader | exploit, work |
| Meaning | Gratify. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Somebody ----s something PP |
| Examples | "feed one's eyes on a gorgeous view" |
| Synonyms | feast |
| Broader | regale, treat |
| Meaning | Provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
| Model | They feed the trees |
| Synonyms | fertilize, fertilise |
| Category | farming, agriculture, husbandry |
| Broader | enrich |
| Narrower | nitrify; dung; topdress |
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