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feed
What does feed mean?
feed (verb): to give (someone or something) food to eat.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you pronounce feed?
/fid/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does feed come from?
From Middle English feden, from Old English fēdan (“to feed”), from Proto-West Germanic *fōdijan, from Proto-Germanic *fōdijaną (“to feed”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to guard, graze, feed”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Words related to feed
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
Test yourself: do you know “feed”?
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What does “feed” mean?
to flow or move forward rapidly or noisily
Not quite: that's what rush means.
to give (someone or something) food to eat
Right! That's what “feed” means.
to become larger, to increase in magnitude
Not quite: that's what grow means.
to tear apart; to rapidly become two parts
Not quite: that's what rip means.
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