| provender | | |
| n. (food) | 1. feed, provender | food for domestic livestock. |
| ~ food, nutrient | any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue. |
| ~ blood meal | the dried and powdered blood of animals. |
| ~ corn gluten feed | a feed consisting primarily of corn gluten. |
| ~ cattle cake | a concentrated feed for cattle; processed in the form of blocks or cakes. |
| ~ creep feed | feed given to young animals isolated in a creep. |
| ~ fodder | coarse food (especially for livestock) composed of entire plants or the leaves and stalks of a cereal crop. |
| ~ feed grain | grain grown for cattle feed. |
| ~ ensilage, silage | fodder harvested while green and kept succulent by partial fermentation as in a silo. |
| ~ oil cake | mass of e.g. linseed or cottonseed or soybean from which the oil has been pressed; used as food for livestock. |
| ~ pigswill, pigwash, slop, slops, swill | wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk. |
| ~ mash | mixture of ground animal feeds. |
| ~ cud, rechewed food | food of a ruminant regurgitated to be chewed again. |
| ~ bird feed, bird food, birdseed | food given to birds; usually mixed seeds. |
| ~ pet-food, pet food, petfood | food prepared for animal pets. |
| ~ mast | nuts of forest trees used as feed for swine. |
| ~ fish meal | ground dried fish used as fertilizer and as feed for domestic livestock. |
| n. (food) | 2. commissariat, provender, provisions, viands, victuals | a stock or supply of foods. |
| ~ food, nutrient | any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue. |
| ~ food cache | food in a secure or hidden storage place. |
| ~ larder | a supply of food especially for a household. |
| feed | | |
| v. (consumption) | 1. feed | provide as food.; "Feed the guests the nuts" |
| ~ cater, ply, provide, supply | give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance.; "The hostess provided lunch for all the guests" |
| v. (consumption) | 2. feed, give | give food to.; "Feed the starving children in India"; "don't give the child this tough meat" |
| ~ dine | give dinner to; host for dinner.; "I'm wining and dining my friends" |
| ~ eat | take in solid food.; "She was eating a banana"; "What did you eat for dinner last night?" |
| ~ scavenge | feed on carrion or refuse.; "hyenas scavenge" |
| ~ fodder | give fodder (to domesticated animals). |
| ~ swill, slop | feed pigs. |
| ~ regurgitate | feed through the beak by regurgitating previously swallowed food.; "many birds feed their young by regurgitating what they have swallowed and carried to the nest" |
| ~ corn | feed (cattle) with corn. |
| ~ malnourish, undernourish | provide with insufficient quality or quantity of nourishment.; "The stunted growth of these children shows that they are undernourished" |
| ~ overfeed | feed excessively. |
| ~ spoonfeed | feed with a spoon. |
| ~ force-feed | feed someone who will not or cannot eat. |
| ~ cater, ply, provide, supply | give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance.; "The hostess provided lunch for all the guests" |
| ~ lunch | provide a midday meal for.; "She lunched us well" |
| ~ breakfast | provide breakfast for. |
| ~ breastfeed, give suck, lactate, wet-nurse, suckle, nurse, suck | give suck to.; "The wetnurse suckled the infant"; "You cannot nurse your baby in public in some places" |
| ~ bottlefeed | feed (infants) with a bottle. |
| ~ inject | feed intravenously. |
| ~ aliment, nutrify, nourish | give nourishment to. |
| ~ range | let eat.; "range the animals in the prairie" |
| ~ pasture, graze, crop | let feed in a field or pasture or meadow. |
| v. (consumption) | 3. feed | feed into; supply.; "Her success feeds her vanity" |
| ~ furnish, provide, supply, render | give something useful or necessary to.; "We provided the room with an electrical heater" |
| v. (change) | 4. feed, feed in | introduce continuously.; "feed carrots into a food processor" |
| ~ put in, inclose, insert, stick in, introduce, enclose | introduce.; "Insert your ticket here" |
| v. (social) | 5. feed | support or promote.; "His admiration fed her vanity" |
| ~ encourage, promote, further, boost, advance | contribute to the progress or growth of.; "I am promoting the use of computers in the classroom" |
| v. (consumption) | 6. eat, feed | take in food; used of animals only.; "This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat"; "What do whales eat?" |
| ~ ingest, consume, have, take in, take | serve oneself to, or consume regularly.; "Have another bowl of chicken soup!"; "I don't take sugar in my coffee" |
| ~ eat | take in solid food.; "She was eating a banana"; "What did you eat for dinner last night?" |
| ~ forage | wander and feed.; "The animals forage in the woods" |
| ~ raven | feed greedily.; "The lions ravened the bodies" |
| ~ suckle | suck milk from the mother's breasts.; "the infant was suckling happily" |
| ~ graze, browse, pasture, crop, range | feed as in a meadow or pasture.; "the herd was grazing" |
| v. (consumption) | 7. feed | serve as food for; be the food for.; "This dish feeds six" |
| ~ cater, ply, provide, supply | give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance.; "The hostess provided lunch for all the guests" |
| v. (motion) | 8. course, feed, flow, run | move along, of liquids.; "Water flowed into the cave"; "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi" |
| ~ flush | flow freely.; "The garbage flushed down the river" |
| ~ jet, gush | issue in a jet; come out in a jet; stream or spring forth.; "Water jetted forth"; "flames were jetting out of the building" |
| ~ move | move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion.; "He moved his hand slightly to the right" |
| ~ tide, surge | rise or move forward.; "surging waves" |
| ~ circulate | move through a space, circuit or system, returning to the starting point.; "Blood circulates in my veins"; "The air here does not circulate" |
| ~ eddy, purl, whirlpool, swirl, whirl | flow in a circular current, of liquids. |
| ~ waste, run off | run off as waste.; "The water wastes back into the ocean" |
| ~ run down | move downward.; "The water ran down" |
| ~ pour | flow in a spurt.; "Water poured all over the floor" |
| ~ spill, run out | flow, run or fall out and become lost.; "The milk spilled across the floor"; "The wine spilled onto the table" |
| ~ well out, stream | flow freely and abundantly.; "Tears streamed down her face" |
| ~ dribble, trickle, filter | run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream.; "water trickled onto the lawn from the broken hose"; "reports began to dribble in" |
| ~ drain, run out | flow off gradually.; "The rain water drains into this big vat" |
| ~ ooze, seep | pass gradually or leak through or as if through small openings. |
| ~ gutter | flow in small streams.; "Tears guttered down her face" |
| v. (consumption) | 9. feed, prey | profit from in an exploitatory manner.; "He feeds on her insecurity" |
| ~ exploit, work | use or manipulate to one's advantage.; "He exploit the new taxation system"; "She knows how to work the system"; "he works his parents for sympathy" |
| v. (consumption) | 10. feast, feed | gratify.; "feed one's eyes on a gorgeous view" |
| ~ regale, treat | provide with choice or abundant food or drink.; "Don't worry about the expensive wine--I'm treating"; "She treated her houseguests with good food every night" |
| v. (change) | 11. feed, fertilise, fertilize | provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to.; "We should fertilize soil if we want to grow healthy plants" |
| ~ farming, husbandry, agriculture | the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock. |
| ~ enrich | make better or improve in quality.; "The experience enriched her understanding"; "enriched foods" |
| ~ nitrify | treat (soil) with nitrates. |
| ~ dung | fertilize or dress with dung.; "you must dung the land" |
| ~ topdress | scatter manure or fertilizer over (land). |
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