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Feed

verb

(past & past part. fed; pres. part. feeding)

Provide as food.

Give food to. Synonym: give. "Don't give the child this tough meat"

Feed into; supply.

Introduce continuously. Synonym: feed in.

Support or promote.

Take in food; used of animals only. Synonym: eat. "What do whales eat?"

Serve as food for; be the food for.

Move along, of liquids. Synonyms: course, flow, run. "The Missouri feeds into the Mississippi"

Profit from in an exploitatory manner. Synonym: prey.

10.

Gratify. Synonym: feast.

11.

Provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to. Synonyms: fertilise, fertilize.

noun

Food for domestic livestock. Synonym: provender.

Fee

verb

(past & past part. feed; pres. part. feeing)

Give a tip or gratuity to in return for a service, beyond the compensation agreed on. Synonyms: bung, tip. "Fee the steward"

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... you have gained by trying it. If you had not tasted it, you would have gone back to England and told the nabobs that the people in the Colonies eat just such nasty things as the sheep-men feed to their flocks; but now you can torment them by describing the dainty ...

— Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times - 1769 - 1776 A Historical Romance • Charles Carleton Coffin

... shoulders, and looked so gloomy and obstinate that Beppina saw something must be done at once. "Oh, pazienza, Beppo mio!" she said, giving him a little shake. "It might be worse surely. Come, let's go down to the garden and feed the pigeons. You get the ...

— The Italian Twins • Lucy Fitch Perkins

... for the big circus parade. Choose what you want to do or be in the parade. Now we are at the circus grounds. The band marches around the tent. Choose the instrument you want to play. See the big, big elephants in the circus. Let us feed the big elephants. Now look at the pretty high-stepping horses. See if we can step as high as they. The little baby ponies are coming now. Let us make tiny steps just as they do. Now the juggler is ready to play. Throw the ball high, way up high, and catch it on your nose. Heads up high. Now ...

— Games and Play for School Morale - A Course of Graded Games for School and Community Recreation • Various

... task was to feed the hungry, and care for the sick and dying. The customs service was revived under command of Colonel Tasker H. Bliss and began to supply needed revenue. The penal institutions were investigated—noisome holes in which were crowded ...

— The United States Since The Civil War • Charles Ramsdell Lingley

... beaks, till at length they kill him, and tear him to pieces. Upon the coast of the South Sea there are great numbers of birds named alcatraz, somewhat like our ordinary poultry in shape, but so large that each individual may contain three pecks of grain in its crop. These birds feed mostly on fish which they catch in the sea, yet are fond of carrion, which they go in search of thirty or forty leagues inland. The flesh of these birds stinks most abominably, insomuch that some persons who have been driven to the ...

— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. IV. • Robert Kerr

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