feed upon


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Verb1.feed upon - be sustained by; "He fed on the great ideas of her mentor"
feed on
fulfil, fulfill, satisfy, meet, fill - fill or meet a want or need
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The Lion was unable after a long chase to catch the Hart, and returned to feed upon the Hare.
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I hope to zee it, sister, before the Hanover rats have eat up all our corn, and left us nothing but turneps to feed upon.
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She recalled that she often had wished she might see a lion, close to, make a kill and feed upon it.
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They feed upon raw cow's flesh; when they kill a cow, they keep the blood to rub their bodies with, and wear the guts about their necks for ornaments, which they afterwards give to their wives.
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For men's minds, will either feed upon their own good, or upon others' evil; and who wanteth the one, will prey upon the other; and whoso is out of hope, to attain to another's virtue, will seek to come at even hand, by depressing another's fortune.
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Knowing no better, I used my arms as well as my legs for walking, and crawled under the edges of stones or hid among the roots of grasses with no thought beyond finding a few insects smaller than myself to feed upon.
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As I watched them playing about I discovered, not only that they suckled their young, but that at intervals they rose to the surface to breathe as well as to feed upon certain grasses and a strange, scarlet lichen which grew upon the rocks just above the water line.
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But it is to escape being eaten and destroyed that we have secluded ourselves in this out-of-the-way place, and there is neither right nor justice in your coming here to feed upon us.
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The tortoises not only clean various types of filth, but feed upon snakes and several dead aquatic creatures, thus preventing water pollution, according to experts.
Wildlife department recovers 154 smuggled tortoises in Karachi's Liaquatabad
They feed upon a wide variety of prey including dolphins and porpoises, sharks and rays, large whales, cephalopods (octopods and squids), seabirds and various fish species.
Killer whales seen off Churna Island in rare sighting
Preliminary results support negative phototaxis, a potential adaptation to target (and eventually adhere to) the underside of submerged surfaces where rotifers that Sommerstorffia must feed upon are known to graze.
Phototaxis in Sommerstorffia spinosa (oomycota) zoospores
If we do not do it as a global entity the monster will feed upon the weak.
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