feed

About 21.72 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To give (someone or something) food to eat.

   Feed the dog every evening.

2. verb To eat .

   Spiders feed on gnats and flies.

3. verb To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food.

   Don't feed him too much; he's still a baby.

4. verb To give to a machine to be processed.

   Feed the paper gently into the document shredder.

5. verb To supply (a machine) with something to be processed.

   We got interesting results after feeding the computer with the new data.

6. verb To satisfy, gratify, or minister to (a sense, taste, desire, etc.).
7. verb To supply with something.

   Springs feed ponds with water.

8. verb To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle.

   If grain is too forward in autumn, feed it with sheep.

Similar words

provender feast eat fertilize prey grub give feed in feeder foodstuff

Often followed by

the on and them upon their him for a

Word family

fed feeding feeds