Synonyms for feed
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1. feed, provender(verb)

   food for domestic livestock

   Synonyms:
   provisions, victuals, provender, viands, commissariat

   Antonyms:
   starve, famish

2. feed(verb)

   provide as food

   "Feed the guests the nuts"

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

   Antonyms:
   famish, starve

3. feed, give(verb)

   give food to

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

   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

   Antonyms:
   starve, famish

4. feed(verb)

   feed into; supply

   "Her success feeds her vanity"

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

   Antonyms:
   famish, starve

5. feed, feed in(verb)

   introduce continuously

   "feed carrots into a food processor"

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

   Antonyms:
   starve, famish

6. feed(verb)

   support or promote

   "His admiration fed her vanity"

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

   Antonyms:
   famish, starve

7. feed, eat(verb)

   take in food; used of animals only

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

   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

   Antonyms:
   famish, starve

8. feed(verb)

   serve as food for; be the food for

   "This dish feeds six"

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

   Antonyms:
   starve, famish

9. run, flow, feed, course(verb)

   move along, of liquids

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

   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

   Antonyms:
   starve, famish

10. prey, feed(verb)

    profit from in an exploitatory manner

    "He feeds on her insecurity"

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

    Antonyms:
    famish, starve

11. feed, feast(verb)

    gratify

    "feed one's eyes on a gorgeous view"

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

    Antonyms:
    starve, famish

12. fertilize, fertilise, feed(verb)

    provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to

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

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

    Antonyms:
    famish, starve

English Synonyms and Antonyms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

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

Dictionary of English Synonymes(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. feed(v. a.)

   Synonyms:
   give food to, furnish with provisions, supply with nourishment

2. feed(v. a.)

   Synonyms:
   supply, contribute to, provide for

3. feed(v. a.)

   Synonyms:
   nourish, cherish, sustain

4. feed(v. n.)

   Synonyms:
   eat, take food, take nourishment

5. feed(v. n.)

   Synonyms:
   subsist, sustain life

6. feed(n.)

   Synonyms:
   food (for beasts), provender, fodder

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. feed(n)

   Synonyms:
   provender, fodder

2. feed(v)

   Synonyms:
   bait, regale

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1. List of paraphrases for "feed":

   fodder, feeding, forage, food, feedingstuffs, feedstuff, nourish, feedingstuff, feeds, power, eat, foods, diet, feedstuffs, fed, eating, nurture, nutrition, foraging

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1. Joseph Glauber:

   The idea was laudable. But I think it is a mistake to try to address farm-level problems with an emergency food program. I think the fundamental goal should be to provide good food at the lowest cost possible so that you can feed the most people.

2. Proverb:

   Feed sparingly and defy the physician.

3. Mehmet Murat ildan:

   It is winter time, my friend; buy couple of breads; find a place calm and quiet and feed the birds; and for this action of yours, ask no more reward than their cheerful singings!

4. Jonathan Mays:

   We currently have the snake and are simply trying to keep it alive as it lacks the natural ability to feed on its own, most bicephlic reptiles die within the first couple weeks due to feeding/digestion problems.

5. John Gay:

   A fox may steal your hens, Sir, a whore your health and pence, Sir, your daughter rob your chest, Sir, your wife may steal your rest, Sir, a thief your goods and plate. But this is all but picking, with rest, pence, chest and chicken; it ever was decreed, Sir, if lawyer's hand is feed, Sir, he steals your whole estate.

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