feed
/fiːd/ verb (past tense and past participle fed)Definition
GIVE FOOD [T] › to give food to a person, group, or animal: I fed Simone's cat while she was away. Let's feed the children first, and then have our dinner.
EAT FOOD [I] › If an animal or a baby feeds, it eats: The caterpillars feed on cabbage leaves.
SUPPLY [T] › to supply something such as information to a person or a machine, especially in a regular or continuous way: We fed them false information about our plans. Nicola fed the pages into the photocopier. → See also breast-feed
(Definition of feed verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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