Antonyms for forage
ˈfɔr ɪdʒ, ˈfɒr-for·age

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1. forage

   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, feed, fodder, food, nourishment, nutriment, nutrition, pabulum, provender, regimen, sustenance, viands, victuals

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Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:1.0 / 2 votes

1. eatage, forage, pasture, pasturage, grassnoun

   bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle

   Synonyms:
   foraging, smoke, lea, gage, green goddess, weed, grazing land, dope, pasture, herbage, sess, eatage, supergrass, skunk, pastureland, locoweed, pasturage, grass, pot, sens, ley

2. foraging, forageverb

   the act of searching for food and provisions

   Synonyms:
   foraging, eatage, pasture, grass, pasturage

3. scrounge, forageverb

   collect or look around for (food)

   Synonyms:
   shnorr, scrounge, schnorr, cadge

4. forageverb

   wander and feed

   "The animals forage in the woods"

   Synonyms:
   scrounge

How to use forage in a sentence?

1. Divas Matinyadze:

   As beekeepers we jealously look after the environment because beekeeping depends on good water sources and good forage for pollen, there are lots of trees where my beehives are.

2. Lindsay Porter:

   When you increase that underwater noise, you not only stop dolphins from being able to forage ... we also stop them communicating with each other.

3. Christopher McCandless:

   Tramping is too easy with all this money. My days were more exciting when I was penniless and had to forage around for my next meal... I've decided that I'm going to live this life for some time to come. The freedom and simple beauty of it is just too good to pass up.

4. Erica Fuller:

   Were approaching a tipping point where we need to be careful not to lose all of our forage species at the same time.

5. Erick Arnoldson:

   The technology that goes into Livingston Lures is cutting edge, but our concept is simple. We are using advanced digital circuitry to produce a lure that mimics real forage species not only in the way that it swims and looks, but in the way that it sounds as well.

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