feed
food for domestic livestock (Freq. 32)
• Syn:
provender
• Hypernyms:
food, nutrient
• Hyponyms:
blood meal, corn gluten feed, cattle cake, creep feed, fodder,
feed grain, silage, ensilage, oil cake, slop, slops,
swill, pigswill, pigwash, mash, cud, rechewed food,
bird feed, bird food, birdseed, petfood, pet-food, pet food,
mast, fish meal
1. provide as food (Freq. 47)
- Feed the guests the nuts
• Derivationally related forms:
feeding
• Hypernyms:
provide, supply, ply, cater
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody something
- Somebody ----s something to somebody
- They feed the animals
2. give food to (Freq. 15)
- Feed the starving children in India
- don't give the child this tough meat
• Syn:
give
• Ant:
starve
• Derivationally related forms:
giving (for: give), feeder, feeding
• Hypernyms:
provide, supply, ply, cater
• Hyponyms:
dine, scavenge, fodder, slop, swill,
regurgitate, corn, undernourish, malnourish, overfeed, spoonfeed,
force-feed, lunch, breakfast, breastfeed, suckle, suck,
nurse, wet-nurse, lactate, give suck, bottlefeed, inject,
inject, aliment, nourish, range, crop,
graze, pasture
• Cause:
eat
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Somebody ----s somebody something (for: give)
- Somebody ----s something to somebody (for: give)
- They feed the food to the people
- They feed the people the food
3. feed into;
supply (Freq. 5)
- Her success feeds her vanity
• Derivationally related forms:
feeder
• Hypernyms:
supply, provide, render, furnish
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s something
4. introduce continuously (Freq. 4)
- feed carrots into a food processor
• Syn:
feed in
• Derivationally related forms:
feeder
• Hypernyms:
insert, enclose, inclose, stick in, put in, introduce
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something PP
- Somebody ----s something with something
5. support or promote (Freq. 3)
- His admiration fed her vanity
• Hypernyms:
promote, advance, boost, further, encourage
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
6. take in food;
used of animals only (Freq. 3)
- This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat
- What do whales eat?
• Syn:
eat
• Derivationally related forms:
eating (for: eat), feeder, feeding
• Hypernyms:
consume, ingest, take in, take, have
• Hyponyms:
forage, raven, suckle, crop, browse,
graze, range, pasture
• Verb Group:
eat
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Something is ----ing PP
- The animals feed
7. serve as food for;
be the food for (Freq. 1)
- This dish feeds six
• Hypernyms:
provide, supply, ply, cater
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s somebody
- Something ----s something
8. move along, of liquids
- Water flowed into the cave
- the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi
• Syn:
run, flow, course
• See Also:
flow from (for: flow), run over (for: run)
• Derivationally related forms:
course (for: course), flow (for: flow), flowing (for: flow), run (for: run)
• Hypernyms:
move
• Hyponyms:
flush, jet, gush, tide, surge,
circulate, eddy, purl, whirlpool, swirl, whirl,
waste, run off, run down, pour, spill, run out,
stream, well out, trickle, dribble, filter, drain,
seep, ooze, gutter
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Something is ----ing PP
9. profit from in an exploitatory manner
- He feeds on her insecurity
• Syn:
prey
• Derivationally related forms:
prey (for: prey)
• Hypernyms:
exploit, work
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
- Something ----s something
10. gratify
- feed one's eyes on a gorgeous view
• Syn:
feast
• Derivationally related forms:
feast (for: feast)
• Hypernyms:
regale, treat
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Somebody ----s something PP
11. provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to
- We should fertilize soil if we want to grow healthy plants
• Syn:
fertilize, fertilise
• Derivationally related forms:
fertilization (for: fertilize), fertilizer (for: fertilize)
• Topics:
farming, agriculture, husbandry
• Hypernyms:
enrich
• Hyponyms:
nitrify, dung, topdress
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- They feed the trees
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