feed synonyms

feed

n.

fodder, food for animals, pasture, forage, provender, pasturage, roughage, silage, mash, provisions, supplies.

Common feeds include: grain, small grain, corn, oats, barley, rye, wheat, millet, peanuts, pulse, hay, clover, timothy, alsike, sweet clover, alfalfa, vetch, cowpeas, sorghum, rape, kale, soybeans, beets, ensilage, silage, molasses, oil meal, bean meal, tankage, bone meal, fish meal, straw, bran, maize, Kaffir corn, grass, pasture.

feed

v.

feast, regale, give food to, satisfy the hunger of, nourish, supply, support, sate, satisfy, fill, stuff, cram, gorge, banquet, dine, nurse, give suck to, maintain, augment, fatten, provide for, provision, victual, cater, stock, furnish, nurture, sustain, foster, keep alive, encourage, pasture, graze, gratify, serve, minister to, wait upon, wine and dine*.

Antonyms starve*, deprive*, quench.

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