feeds

• administers
• allocates
• apportions
• assigns
• bakes
• banquets
• barbecues
• barbeques
• battens
• bites
• blowouts
• boards
• breakfasts
• breaks bread
• buffets
• carnivals
• caters
• cedes
• chow
• clambakes
• collations
• cookouts
• deeds
• delivers
• digs in
• dines
• dines out
• dinners
• dispenses
• distributes
• doles out
• eats
• fares
• fattens
• feasts
• festivals
• festivities
• fetes
• fills
• force-feeds
• fries
• fry-ups
• furnishes
• galas
• gives
• gluts
• gorges
• gormandizes
• grazes
• gulps
• hand-feeds
• hands
• hands over
• luaus
• luncheons
• lunches
• makes over
• meals
• menus
• messes
• morsels
• nibbles
• noshes
• nourishes
• nurtures
• overeats
• overfeeds
• partakes
• parties
• picks
• picnics
• pigs out
• portions
• potlucks
• prorates
• provides
• provisions
• refections
• refeeds
• refreshes
• refreshments
• regales
• repasts
• reprovisions
• roasts
• serves
• servings
• shindigs
• smorgasbords
• snacks
• spoon-feeds
• spreads
• suppers
• supplies
• sups
• surfeits
• sustains
• tables
• tastes
• teas
• transfers
• underfeeds
• victuals
• waits

• conserves
• diets
• fasts
• keeps up
• maintains
• preserves
• reserves
• retains
• saves
• withholds

• 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.

• She feeds the stray cats every evening near her house.
• The farmer feeds his chickens twice a day.
• The website feeds fresh news updates directly to your phone.
• The mother bird feeds her chicks until they can find food on their own.
• This machine feeds paper into the printer automatically.

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