1. The act of consuming food
   "The zoo visitors watched the lions' feeding time";
   - eating
    
2. The act of supplying food and nourishment
   "The hospital focused on proper feeding for patients recovering from surgery";
   - alimentation [formal]

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

Derived forms: feedings

See also: flow from

Type of: advance, boost, cater, consume, consumption, enclose, encourage, enrich, exploit, furnish, further, have, inclose, ingest, ingestion, insert, intake, introduce, move, offer, promote, provide, provision, put in, put up, regale, render, stick in, supply, take, take in, treat, uptake, work

Antonym: famish

Encyclopedia: Feeding