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feed
verb
B1
/fiːd/
To give (someone or something) food to eat.
transitive
To eat (usually of animals).
intransitive
To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food.
ditransitive
To give to a machine to be processed.
transitive
To supply (a machine) with something to be processed.
transitive
To satisfy, gratify, or minister to (a sense, taste, desire, etc.).
figuratively, transitive
To supply with something.
transitive
To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle.
transitive
To pass to.
transitive
To create the environment where another phonological rule can apply; to be applied before (another rule).
transitive
To create the syntactic environment in which another syntactic rule is applied; to be applied before (another syntactic rule).
transitive
Forms
he/she/it
feeds
,
feedeth
-ing form
feeding
past participle
fed
past
fed
Example sentences
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I feed my cat every morning and every evening.
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I'm feeding the goldfish.
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feed
Food given to (especially herbivorous) non-human animals.
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