feed

The word “feed” has 1 syllable: feed

It's pronounced as /fid/


What is synonym and antonym for feed?

In the thesaurus, “feed” has 104 synonyms and 10 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for feed along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for feed

Antonyms for feed

Meanings of feed

  • noun
    1. Food given to (especially herbivorous) animals.
    2. Something supplied continuously.
    3. The part of a machine that supplies the material to be operated upon.
    4. The forward motion of the material fed into a machine.
    5. A meal.
    6. A gathering to eat, especially in quantity.
    7. Encapsulated online content, such as news or a blog, that can be subscribed to.
  • verb
    1. (ditransitive) To give (someone or something) food to eat.
    2. To eat (usually of animals).
    3. To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food.
    4. To give to a machine to be processed.
    5. To satisfy, gratify, or minister to (a sense, taste, desire, etc.).
    6. To supply with something.
    7. To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle.
    8. To pass to.
    9. (of a phonological rule) To create the environment where another phonological rule can apply; to be applied before another rule.
    10. (of a syntactic rule) To create the syntactic environment in which another syntactic rule is applied; to be applied before another syntactic rule.
    11. To reward for services performed, or to be performed; to recompense; to hire or keep in hire; hence, to bribe.

Example Sentences

  • Don’t forget to feed the cat before you leave for work.
  • Farmers wake up early every day to feed the animals.
  • She used her phone to scroll through the latest updates on her news feed.
  • They set up a bird feeder to feed the sparrows in the backyard.
  • The charity works to feed hundreds of families each week.

On this page you'll find 114 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to feed, such as: administer, allocate, apportion, assign, bake, banquet, barbecue.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

eat

  • absorb
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  • wolf
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eatables

  • aid
  • aliment
  • bacon
  • board
  • bread
  • bread and butter
  • chow
  • chuck
  • comestible
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  • regale
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  • salt
  • serving
  • silage
  • slop
  • snack
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  • spread
  • staples
  • subsistence
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  • sustenance
  • swill
  • table
  • tidbits
  • tucker
  • viand
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  • victual
  • victuals
  • vittles
  • wherewithal

eats

  • affronts
  • aggravates
  • agitates
  • aliment
  • angers
  • annoys
  • antagonizes
  • badgers
  • baits
  • ballyrags
  • banquets
  • board
  • boards
  • bolts
  • bothers
  • bread
  • breakfasts
  • breaks bread
  • breaks down
  • breaks up
  • bugs
  • bullyrags
  • chafes
  • chews
  • chow
  • chuck
  • comestibles
  • commissary
  • consumes
  • corrodes
  • decimates
  • decomposes
  • destroys
  • devastates
  • devils
  • devours
  • diet
  • digests
  • digs in
  • dines
  • dines out
  • discomforts
  • discomposes
  • dish
  • disintegrates
  • dispatches
  • disquiets
  • dissolves
  • distresses
  • downs
  • eatables
  • edibles
  • enflames
  • enrages
  • ensilage
  • erodes
  • exasperates
  • exercises
  • fare
  • fares
  • feast
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  • feed
  • feeds
  • finger food
  • fodder
  • food
  • foodstuffs
  • forage
  • frets
  • frosts
  • galls
  • gets
  • gets to
  • gluts
  • gnaws
  • gorges
  • gormandizes
  • grates
  • grazes
  • gripes
  • grub
  • gulps
  • gums
  • hagrides
  • harasses
  • harries
  • hassles
  • heckles
  • incenses
  • inflames
  • infuriates
  • ingests
  • insults
  • irks
  • irritates
  • itches
  • laps
  • licks
  • lunches
  • maddens
  • meal
  • meals
  • meat
  • mess
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  • miffs
  • munches
  • nags
  • narks
  • natural food
  • nettles
  • nibbles
  • nosh
  • noshes
  • nourishment
  • nurses
  • nurture
  • nutriment
  • offends
  • outrages
  • overeats
  • overfeeds
  • pap
  • partakes
  • peeves
  • persecutes
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  • picks
  • picnics
  • pigs out
  • piques
  • plagues
  • plate
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  • polishes off
  • provender
  • provisions
  • provokes
  • puts away
  • puts down
  • puts out
  • rankles
  • rasps
  • rations
  • refreshes
  • refreshments
  • regale
  • regales
  • relishes
  • repast
  • repasts
  • riles
  • roils
  • rouses
  • rubs the wrong way
  • ruffles
  • ruins
  • savors
  • savours
  • scoffs
  • serving
  • silage
  • slop
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  • snacks
  • spites
  • spread
  • supplies
  • sups
  • sustenance
  • swallows
  • swill
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  • table
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  • tucker
  • undoes
  • unhinges
  • unsettles
  • upsets
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  • viands
  • victuals
  • vittles
  • wastes
  • wears on
  • wolfs
  • worries
  • wrecks

keep

keep an eye on

  • abide by
  • accomplish
  • accord
  • adhere to
  • administer
  • adopt
  • advance
  • advise
  • aid
  • angel
  • attend
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  • baby sit
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  • back
  • bankroll
  • be a source of strength
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  • be interested in
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  • beam
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  • cover
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  • crack the whip
  • cradle
  • cultivate
  • deal with
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  • devote oneself
  • dig
  • direct
  • discern
  • discipline
  • discover
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  • do
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  • eagle eye
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  • emulate
  • encourage
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  • eye
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  • father
  • feed
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  • flash
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  • follow
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  • fortify
  • forward
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  • fund
  • further
  • gape
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  • gaze
  • get a load of
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  • give a leg up
  • give allegiance to
  • give heed to
  • give the once-over
  • glance
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  • glimpse
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  • govern
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  • have a look-see
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  • hear
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  • hound
  • humor
  • imitate
  • immunize
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  • inspect
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  • keep
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  • lamp
  • lend an ear
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  • look
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  • maintain
  • make a living
  • make certain
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  • manage
  • mark
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  • medicate
  • mimic
  • mind
  • mind the store
  • minister
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  • mirror
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  • monitor
  • mother
  • note
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  • nourish
  • nurse
  • nurture
  • obey
  • observe
  • occupy oneself with
  • overlook
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  • pamper
  • patrol
  • pattern oneself upon
  • pay attention
  • pay attention to
  • pay expenses of
  • pay for
  • pay heed
  • peek
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  • perceive
  • perform
  • pick up
  • pick up on
  • pick up the check
  • pipe
  • police
  • preserve
  • preside over
  • promote
  • prop
  • protect
  • provide for
  • pursue
  • put up money for
  • quarterback
  • raise
  • read
  • recognize
  • record
  • reflect
  • regard
  • ride herd on
  • ride shotgun for
  • rubberneck
  • run
  • run the show
  • run things
  • safeguard
  • save
  • scan
  • scope
  • screen
  • scrutinize
  • secure
  • see
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  • serve
  • set up
  • shadow
  • shelter
  • shepherd
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  • shotgun
  • sight
  • sit
  • sit on top of
  • skipper
  • sponsor
  • spot
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  • stake
  • stalk
  • stare
  • stiffen
  • stonewall
  • strengthen
  • string along
  • stroke
  • study
  • subsidize
  • succor
  • superintend
  • supervise
  • support
  • surveil
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  • sustain
  • tag
  • take a gander
  • take after
  • take as an example
  • take care of
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  • take in
  • take notice
  • take pains
  • take under wing
  • tend
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  • treat
  • underwrite
  • uphold
  • vaccinate
  • view
  • wait
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  • watch
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  • watch over
  • witness

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