1. Give food to
   "Feed the starving children in India";
   - give
    
2. Provide as food
   "Feed the guests the nuts"
    
3. Take in food; used of animals only
   "The cattle feed in the pasture"
    
4. Serve as food for; be the food for
   "This dish feeds six"
    
5. Increase or justify; supply with a source of material
   "Her success feeds her vanity"
    
6. Introduce continuously
   "feed carrots into a food processor";
   - feed in
    
7. Support or promote
   "His admiration fed her vanity"
    
8. Move along, of liquids
   "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi";
   - run, flow, course
    
9. Profit from in an exploitatory manner
   "He feeds on her insecurity";
   - prey
    
10. Gratify
    "feed one's eyes on a gorgeous view";
    - feast
     
11. (farming) provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to
    "They fed the soil with organic compost";
    - fertilize, fertilise [Brit], enrich

1. Food for domestic livestock
   "The farmer purchased a variety of feeds for the animals";
   - provender, feedstuff
    
2. A machine or program that supplies something (regularly or continuously)
   "The news feed updates every hour"

1. Give a tip or gratuity to in return for a service, beyond the compensation agreed on
   "fee the steward";
   - tip, bung

Derived forms: feeds, feeding, fed

See also: flow from

Type of: advance, boost, cater, consume, enclose, encourage, enrich, exploit, food, furnish, further, gift, give, have, inclose, ingest, insert, introduce, move, nutrient, offer, present, promote, provide, put in, put up, regale, render, stick in, supply, take, take in, treat, work

Antonym: famish

Encyclopedia: Feed