Antonyms for feed
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1. feed

   Food is, in the popular sense, whatever one eats in contradistinction to what one drinks. Thus, we speak of food and drink, of wholesome, unwholesome, or indigestible food; but in a more scientific sense whatever, when taken into the digestive organs, serves to build up structure or supply waste may be termed food; the word is extended to plants to signify whatever taken in any way into the organism serves similar purposes; thus, we speak of liquid food, plant food, etc.; in this wider sense food is closely synonymous with nutriment, nourishment, and sustenance. Diet refers to the quantity and quality of food habitually taken, with reference to preservation of health. Victuals is a plain, homely word for whatever may be eaten; we speak of choice viands, cold victuals. Nourishment and sustenance apply to whatever can be introduced into the system as a means of sustaining life; we say of a convalescent, he is taking nourishment. Nutriment and nutrition have more of scientific reference to the vitalizing principles of various foods; thus, wheat is said to contain a great amount of nutriment. Regimen considers food as taken by strict rule, but applies more widely to the whole ordering of life. Fare is a general word for all table supplies, good or bad; as, sumptuous fare; wretched fare. Feed, fodder, and provender are used only of the food of the lower animals, feed denoting anything consumed, but more commonly grain, fodder denoting hay, cornstalks, or the like, sometimes called "long feed;" provender is dry feed, whether grain or hay, straw, etc. Forage denotes any kind of food suitable for horses and cattle, primarily as obtained by a military force in scouring the country, especially an enemy's country.

   Synonyms:
   aliment, diet, fare, fodder, food, forage, nourishment, nutriment, nutrition, pabulum, provender, regimen, sustenance, viands, victuals

Matched Categories

1. • Consume
   • Encourage
   • Enrich
   • Exploit
   • Farming
   • Move
   • Provide
   • Regale
   • Supply

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. feed, provenderverb

   food for domestic livestock

   Antonyms:
   starve, famish

   Synonyms:
   provisions, victuals, provender, viands, commissariat

2. feedverb

   provide as food

   "Feed the guests the nuts"

   Antonyms:
   famish, starve

   Synonyms:
   fertilise, run, give, eat, fertilize, feed in, course, feast, flow, prey

3. feed, giveverb

   give food to

   "Feed the starving children in India"; "don't give the child this tough meat"

   Antonyms:
   starve, famish

   Synonyms:
   course, commit, chip in, dedicate, cave in, collapse, impart, eat, pass on, move over, return, establish, fertilise, reach, present, have, flow, fall in, make, pay, throw, gift, kick in, founder, break, feast, ease up, apply, give, grant, open, feed in, devote, hold, pass, render, fertilize, sacrifice, yield, turn over, leave, give way, consecrate, run, generate, contribute, prey, afford, hand

4. feedverb

   feed into; supply

   "Her success feeds her vanity"

   Antonyms:
   famish, starve

   Synonyms:
   fertilise, run, give, eat, fertilize, feed in, course, feast, flow, prey

5. feed, feed inverb

   introduce continuously

   "feed carrots into a food processor"

   Antonyms:
   starve, famish

   Synonyms:
   fertilise, run, give, eat, fertilize, feed in, course, feast, flow, prey

6. feedverb

   support or promote

   "His admiration fed her vanity"

   Antonyms:
   famish, starve

   Synonyms:
   fertilise, run, give, eat, fertilize, feed in, course, feast, flow, prey

7. feed, eatverb

   take in food; used of animals only

   "This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat"; "What do whales eat?"

   Antonyms:
   famish, starve

   Synonyms:
   eat, wipe out, eat on, give, fertilise, rust, eat up, run, exhaust, run through, deplete, consume, prey, feast, corrode, flow, fertilize, course, use up, feed in

8. feedverb

   serve as food for; be the food for

   "This dish feeds six"

   Antonyms:
   starve, famish

   Synonyms:
   fertilise, run, give, eat, fertilize, feed in, course, feast, flow, prey

9. run, flow, feed, courseverb

   move along, of liquids

   "Water flowed into the cave"; "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi"

   Antonyms:
   starve, famish

   Synonyms:
   course, operate, feed in, hunt, fly the coop, work, scat, run away, move, turn tail, eat, flux, range, run, guide, function, lead, lam, flow, melt down, track down, break away, head for the hills, extend, hunt down, endure, bunk, take to the woods, consort, execute, fall, feast, bleed, carry, scarper, go, unravel, prey, lean, play, die hard, race, pass, fertilise, fertilize, run for, black market, give, persist, incline, hang, draw, hightail it, be given, prevail, campaign, tend, escape, ladder, ply, menstruate, melt

10. prey, feedverb

    profit from in an exploitatory manner

    "He feeds on her insecurity"

    Antonyms:
    famish, starve

    Synonyms:
    fertilise, run, give, eat, raven, feed in, course, fertilize, feast, flow, prey, predate

11. feed, feastverb

    gratify

    "feed one's eyes on a gorgeous view"

    Antonyms:
    starve, famish

    Synonyms:
    fertilise, run, give, eat, fertilize, feed in, course, banquet, feast, flow, prey, junket

12. fertilize, fertilise, feedverb

    provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to

    "We should fertilize soil if we want to grow healthy plants"

    Antonyms:
    famish, starve

    Synonyms:
    fecundate, run, give, course, flow, eat, fertilize, feed in, fertilise, feast, inseminate, prey

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1. feednoun

   Synonyms:
   provender, fodder

2. feedverb

   Synonyms:
   bait, regale

How to use feed in a sentence?

1. Tzompa Sosa:

   They are more sustainable because (insects) use less land (than cattle), they are more efficient at converting feed ... and they also use less water to produce butter.

2. Epictetus:

   If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

3. Chief Executive Anders Runevad:

   We've gone from being a niche industry dependent on subsidy feed-in tariffs to an industry that can compete on more normal market conditions. And that ripples through the chain.

4. Elton John:

   There's doctors, nurses and scientists on the frontlines. They're living proof that most superheroes don't wear capes, we hope this bit of entertainment can feed and fuel your souls.

5. Meghan Azad:

   Any amount is better than none. The more United States can do, the better, every feed counts.

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