feeding

• administering
• allocating
• apportioning
• assigning
• banqueting
• battening
• boarding
• breakfasting
• breaking bread
• catering
• ceding
• deeding
• delivering
• digging in
• dining
• dining out
• dispensing
• distributing
• doling out
• eating
• faring
• fattening
• feasting
• filling
• force-feeding
• furnishing
• giving
• glutting
• gorging
• gormandizing
• grazing
• hand-feeding
• handing
• handing over
• lunching
• making over
• messing
• nibbling
• noshing
• nourishing
• nurturing
• overeating
• overfeeding
• partaking
• picking
• picnicking
• pigging out
• portioning
• prorating
• providing
• provisioning
• refeeding
• refreshing
• regaling
• repasting
• reprovisioning
• serving
• snacking
• spoon-feeding
• supping
• supplying
• surfeiting
• sustaining
• transferring
• underfeeding
• victualing
• victualling
• waiting

• conserving
• dieting
• fasting
• keeping up
• maintaining
• preserving
• reserving
• retaining
• saving
• withholding

• 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.
• noun
  1. An instance of giving food.
  2. An instance of eating (usually said of animals).
  3. That which is eaten; food.
  4. That which furnishes or affords food, especially for animals; pastureland.
  5. The loading of material into a machine that will process it.

• The volunteers spent the morning feeding stray animals at the shelter.
• She enjoys feeding the birds that visit her backyard every day.
• The farmer checked on the cattle while feeding them fresh hay.
• They took turns feeding the newborn kitten with a tiny bottle.
• Watching the dolphins during their feeding time was the highlight of the tour.

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