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Noun feeding has 2 senses
- eating, feeding - the act of consuming food
--1 is a kind of consumption, ingestion, intake, uptake
--1 has parts: chew, chewing, mastication, manduction
--1 has particulars: | | bite, chomp; browse, browsing; coprophagy, coprophagia; dining; engorgement; feasting, banqueting; geophagy, geophagia, pica; graze, grazing; lunching; repletion, surfeit; supping; tasting, savoring, savouring, relishing, degustation; necrophagia, necrophagy; omophagia; scatophagy |
- feeding, alimentation - the act of supplying food and nourishment
--2 is a kind of provision, supply, supplying
--2 has particulars:
Verb feed has 11 senses
- feed - provide as food; "Feed the guests the nuts"
--1 is one way to provide, supply, ply, cater
Sample sentence:
They feed the animals
- feed, give - give food to; "Feed the starving children in India"; "don't give the child this tough meat"
--2 is one way to provide, supply, ply, cater
Antonyms: starve, famish
Sample sentences:
They feed the food to the people
They feed the people the food
- feed - feed into; supply; "Her success feeds her vanity"
--3 is one way to supply, provide, render, furnish
Sample sentence:
Something ----s something
- feed, feed in - introduce continuously; "feed carrots into a food processor"
--4 is one way to insert, enclose, inclose, stick in, put in, introduce
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something PP
Somebody ----s something with something
- feed - support or promote; "His admiration fed her vanity"
--5 is one way to promote, advance, boost, further, encourage
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- feed, eat - take in food; used of animals only; "This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat"; "What do whales eat?"
--6 is one way to consume, ingest, take in, take, have
Sample sentence:
The animals feed
- feed - serve as food for; be the food for; "This dish feeds six"
--7 is one way to provide, supply, ply, cater
Sample sentences:
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- run, flow, feed, course - move along, of liquids; "Water flowed into the cave"; "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi"
--8 is one way to move
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
- prey, feed - profit from in an exploitatory manner; "He feeds on her insecurity"
--9 is one way to exploit, work
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- feed, feast - gratify; "feed one's eyes on a gorgeous view"
--10 is one way to regale, treat
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s something PP
- fertilize, fertilise, feed - provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to; "We should fertilize soil if we want to grow healthy plants"
--11 is one way to enrich
Sample sentence:
They feed the trees
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