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| Noun | 1. | feed - food for domestic livestock blood meal - the dried and powdered blood of animals corn gluten feed - a feed consisting primarily of corn gluten cattle cake - a concentrated feed for cattle; processed in the form of blocks or cakes creep feed - feed given to young animals isolated in a creep fodder - coarse food (especially for livestock) composed of entire plants or the leaves and stalks of a cereal crop feed grain - grain grown for cattle feed ensilage, silage - fodder harvested while green and kept succulent by partial fermentation as in a silo oil cake - mass of e.g. linseed or cottonseed or soybean from which the oil has been pressed; used as food for livestock pigswill, pigwash, slop, slops, swill - wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk mash - mixture of ground animal feeds cud, rechewed food - food of a ruminant regurgitated to be chewed again mast - nuts of forest trees used as feed for swine fish meal - ground dried fish used as fertilizer and as feed for domestic livestock |
| Verb | 1. | feed - provide as food; "Feed the guests the nuts" |
| 2. | feed - give food to; "Feed the starving children in India"; "don't give the child this tough meat" dine - give dinner to; host for dinner; "I'm wining and dining my friends" scavenge - feed on carrion or refuse; "hyenas scavenge" fodder - give fodder (to domesticated animals) regurgitate - feed through the beak by regurgitating previously swallowed food; "many birds feed their young by regurgitating what they have swallowed and carried to the nest" corn - feed (cattle) with corn malnourish, undernourish - provide with insufficient quality or quantity of nourishment; "The stunted growth of these children shows that they are undernourished" overfeed - feed excessively spoonfeed - feed with a spoon force-feed - feed someone who will not or cannot eat cater, ply, provide, supply - give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance; "The hostess provided lunch for all the guests" lunch - provide a midday meal for; "She lunched us well" breakfast - provide breakfast for breastfeed, give suck, lactate, wet-nurse, suckle, nurse, suck - give suck to; "The wetnurse suckled the infant"; "You cannot nurse your baby in public in some places" bottlefeed - feed (infants) with a bottle inject - feed intravenously range - let eat; "range the animals in the prairie" | |
| 3. | feed - feed into; supply; "Her success feeds her vanity" | |
| 4. | feed - introduce continuously; "feed carrots into a food processor" | |
| 5. | feed - support or promote; "His admiration fed her vanity" | |
| 6. | feed - take in food; used of animals only; "This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat"; "What do whales eat?" ingest, consume, have, take in, take - serve oneself to, or consume regularly; "Have another bowl of chicken soup!"; "I don't take sugar in my coffee" eat - take in solid food; "She was eating a banana"; "What did you eat for dinner last night?" forage - wander and feed; "The animals forage in the woods" raven - feed greedily; "The lions ravened the bodies" suckle - suck milk from the mother's breasts; "the infant was suckling happily" | |
| 7. | feed - serve as food for; be the food for; "This dish feeds six" | |
| 8. | feed - move along, of liquids; "Water flowed into the cave"; "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi" flush - flow freely; "The garbage flushed down the river" jet, gush - issue in a jet; come out in a jet; stream or spring forth; "Water jetted forth"; "flames were jetting out of the building" move - move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion; "He moved his hand slightly to the right" circulate - move through a space, circuit or system, returning to the starting point; "Blood circulates in my veins"; "The air here does not circulate" run down - move downward; "The water ran down" pour - flow in a spurt; "Water poured all over the floor" spill, run out - flow, run or fall out and become lost; "The milk spilled across the floor"; "The wine spilled onto the table" dribble, trickle, filter - run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream; "water trickled onto the lawn from the broken hose"; "reports began to dribble in" gutter - flow in small streams; "Tears guttered down her face" | |
| 9. | feed - profit from in an exploitatory manner; "He feeds on her insecurity" | |
| 10. | feed - gratify; "feed one's eyes on a gorgeous view" | |
| 11. | feed - provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to; "We should fertilize soil if we want to grow healthy plants" enrich - make better or improve in quality; "The experience enriched her understanding"; "enriched foods" nitrify - treat (soil) with nitrates dung - fertilize or dress with dung; "you must dung the land" topdress - scatter manure or fertilizer over (land) |