Feed Definition

fēd
fed, feeding, feeds
verb
fed, feeding, feeds
To give food to; provide food for.
Webster's New World
To provide as food.
To feed oats to horses.
Webster's New World
To serve as food for.
A can of soup feeds two people.
Webster's New World
To produce food for.
The valley feeds an entire county.
American Heritage Medicine
To provide something necessary for the growth, development, or existence of; nourish; sustain.
To feed one's anger.
Webster's New World
Antonyms:
noun
feeds
Food given to animals; fodder.
Webster's New World
The amount of fodder given at one time.
Webster's New World
A meal, especially a large one.
We had a great feed at the restaurant.
American Heritage
The act of providing food, especially to an animal.
Food given at one feed.
American Heritage
The material fed into a machine.
Webster's New World
idiom
be off (one's) feed
  • To have lost one's appetite:

    The dog is off its feed this week.

American Heritage
feed on
  • to take as food; eat
  • to get satisfaction, support, etc. from
Webster's New World
off one's feed
  • without appetite for food; somewhat sick
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Feed

Noun

Singular:
feed
Plural:
feeds

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Feed

Origin of Feed

  • From Middle English feden, from Old English fēdan (“to feed”), from Proto-Germanic *fōdijaną (“to feed”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to guard, graze, feed”). Cognate with West Frisian fiede (“to nourish, feed”), Dutch voeden (“to feed”), Danish føde (“to bring forth, feed”), Swedish föda (“to bring forth, feed”), Icelandic fæða (“to feed”), and more distantly with Latin pāscō (“feed, nourish”, verb) through Indo-European. More at food, fodder.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English feden from Old English fēdan pā- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • fe(e) + -(e)d

    From Wiktionary

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