feed
provide as food
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,921 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 5,628 times across 175,160 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
verb
- provide as food Feed the guests the nuts
- give food to also: give Feed the starving children in Indiadon't give the child this tough meat
- feed into; supply Her success feeds her vanity
- introduce continuously also: feed in feed carrots into a food processor
- support or promote His admiration fed her vanity
- take in food; used of animals only also: eat This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meatWhat do whales eat?
feed in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Get them a few little worms, and some small flower seeds, and feed them.
Uncle Wiggily's Travels · Howard Roger Garis · Chapter 1
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Remi and Blaise feed birds at their table, bless them, and make them strong.
The Dream · Émile Zola · Chapter 1
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Severe his task those visits to forego, And feed his heart with voluntary woe.
Rural Tales, Ballads, and Songs · Robert Bloomfield · Chapter 1
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So that both cold and heat do rather feed My ceaseless pains, than any comfort breed.
Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Phillis - Licia · Martha Foote [Editor] Crow · Chapter 1
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A stranger, and one unaccustomed to feed in public, is recognised in a moment by his uneasy movements.
Sketches by Seymour — Volume 04 · Robert Seymour · Chapter 1