fed

[ fed ]

/ fɛd /

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verb

simple past tense and past participle of feed.

Idioms for fed

fed up, impatient; disgusted; bored: They were fed up with the same old routine.

Words nearby fed

feculent, fecund, fecundate, fecundation, fecundity, fed, fed to the gills, fed up, fed., fed. res. bd., fed. res. bk.

Definition for fed (2 of 6)

fed ²

[ fed ]

/ fɛd /

noun

(sometimes initial capital letter) Slang. a federal official or law-enforcement officer.

Origin of fed

First recorded in 1915–20; by shortening

Definition for fed (3 of 6)

Fed

[ fed ]

/ fɛd /

noun

the Fed, Informal. the Federal Reserve System.

the Federal Reserve Board.

Definition for fed (4 of 6)

feed

[ feed ]

/ fid /

verb (used with object), fed, feed·ing.

to give food to; supply with nourishment: to feed a child.

to yield or serve as food for: This land has fed 10 generations.

to provide as food.

to furnish for consumption.

to satisfy; minister to; gratify: Poetry feeds the imagination.

to supply for maintenance or operation, as to a machine: to feed paper into a photocopier.

to provide with the necessary materials for development, maintenance, or operation: to feed a printing press with paper.

to use (land) as pasture.

Theater Informal.

to supply (an actor, especially a comedian) with lines or action, the responses to which are expected to elicit laughter.
to provide cues to (an actor).
Chiefly British. to prompt: Stand in the wings and feed them their lines.

Radio and Television. to distribute (a local broadcast) via satellite or network.

verb (used without object), fed, feed·ing.

(especially of animals) to take food; eat: cows feeding in a meadow; to feed well.

to be nourished or gratified; subsist: to feed on grass; to feed on thoughts of revenge.

noun

food, especially for farm animals, as cattle, horses or chickens.

an allowance, portion, or supply of such food.

Informal. a meal, especially a lavish one.

the act of feeding.

the act or process of feeding a furnace, machine, etc.

the material, or the amount of it, so fed or supplied.

a feeding mechanism.

Electricity. feeder(def 10).

Theater Informal.

a line spoken by one actor, the response to which by another actor is expected to cause laughter.
an actor, especially a straight man, who provides such lines.

a local television broadcast distributed by satellite or network to a much wider audience, especially nationwide or international.

Digital Technology.

a website or application that publishes updates from social media or news-collection websites in reverse chronological order: I follow all of the latest celebrity gossip in my Twitter feed.
an XML-based web document that is updated automatically at predetermined intervals and includes descriptive titles or short descriptions and links to recent pages on a website: Subscribe to news feeds to get the latest news from around the world.

Origin of feed

before 950; Middle English feden, Old English fēdan; cognate with Gothic fodjan, Old Saxon fōdian. See food

SYNONYMS FOR feed

1, 2 nourish, sustain.

5 nurture, support, encourage, bolster.

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ANTONYMS FOR feed

1, 2 starve.

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13. Feed, fodder, forage, provender mean food for animals. Feed is the general word: pig feed; chicken feed. Fodder is especially applied to dry or green feed, as opposed to pasturage, fed to horses, cattle, etc.: fodder for winter feeding; Cornstalks are good fodder. Forage is food that an animal obtains (usually grass, leaves, etc.) by searching about for it: Lost cattle can usually live on forage. Provender denotes dry feed, such as hay, oats, or corn: a supply of provender in the haymow and corn cribs.

OTHER WORDS FROM feed

feed·a·ble, adjective out·feed, verb (used with object), out·fed, out·feed·ing. re·feed, verb, re·fed, re·feed·ing. un·feed·a·ble, adjective

Definition for fed (5 of 6)

fed.

federal.

federated.

federation.

Definition for fed (6 of 6)

Fed.

Federal.

Example sentences from the Web for fed

“In a country that once fed the world, children were dying of malnourishment,” writes Ivereigh.

How Pope Francis Became the World’s BFF |Jason Berry |December 21, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
“You got the wrong number for that,” Det. Johnson told her colleague, Coleman, over the phone while I fed her questions.

The Disappearing Cops of East St. Louis |Justin Glawe |November 26, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Her activity as a citizen journalist had fed into a larger vision of building a supportive community in Tamaulipas.

She Tweeted Against the Mexican Cartels. They Tweeted Her Murder. |Jason McGahan |October 21, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
One can even hear both the regulators and Goldman executives acknowledge that the deal should have required Fed approval.

The Best Regulator? That’s Easy. It’s the Market. |Veronique de Rugy |October 16, 2014 |DAILY BEAST

Biden made many visits to Baghdad and no doubt get fed a load of bull about inclusion on each one.

Exposed: The White House’s Professor-in-Chief |Jonathan Alter |October 8, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
The English merchants and mariners had wrongs of their own, perpetually renewed, which fed the bitterness of their indignation.

English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century |James Anthony Froude
But we who do the old things are fed by nature with a perpetual infancy.

The Napoleon of Notting Hill |Gilbert K. Chesterton
There they sat an hour or two and uttered their cries, and there they were hunted up and fed by the parents.

Little Brothers of the Air |Olive Thorne Miller
Bran may be fed for a change, and a little cotton seed or corn may be given, but sparingly.

The Library of Work and Play: Outdoor Work |Mary Rogers Miller
And your mother should be where she can see that you are properly dressed, fed, and cared for.

A Girl Of The Limberlost |Gene Stratton Porter

British Dictionary definitions for fed (1 of 5)

fed ¹

/ (fɛd) /

verb

the past tense and past participle of feed

fed to death, fed to the teeth, fed up to the teeth, fed to the back teeth or fed up to the back teeth informal bored or annoyed

British Dictionary definitions for fed (2 of 5)

fed ²

/ (fɛd) /

noun

US slang an agent of the FBI

British Dictionary definitions for fed (3 of 5)

Fed

/ (fɛd) /

noun

the Fed US informal the Federal Reserve Bank or Federal Reserve Board

British Dictionary definitions for fed (4 of 5)

Fed.

fed.

abbreviation for

Federal

Federation

Federated

British Dictionary definitions for fed (5 of 5)

feed

/ (fiːd) /

verb feeds, feeding or fed (fɛd) (mainly tr)

to give food to to feed the cat

to give as food to feed meat to the cat

(intr) to eat food the horses feed at noon

to provide food for these supplies can feed 10 million people

to provide what is necessary for the existence or development of to feed one's imagination

to gratify; satisfy to feed one's eyes on a beautiful sight

(also intr) to supply (a machine, furnace, etc) with (the necessary materials or fuel) for its operation, or (of such materials) to flow or move forwards into a machine, etc

to use (land) as grazing

theatre informal to cue (an actor, esp a comedian) with lines or actions

sport to pass a ball to (a team-mate)

electronics to introduce (electrical energy) into a circuit, esp by means of a feeder

(also intr; foll by on or upon) to eat or cause to eat

noun

the act or an instance of feeding

food, esp that of animals or babies

the process of supplying a machine or furnace with a material or fuel

the quantity of material or fuel so supplied

computing a facility allowing web users to receive news headlines and updates on their browser from a website as soon as they are published

the rate of advance of a cutting tool in a lathe, drill, etc

a mechanism that supplies material or fuel or controls the rate of advance of a cutting tool

theatre informal a performer, esp a straight man, who provides cues

informal a meal

Derived forms of feed

feedable, adjective

Word Origin for feed

Old English fēdan; related to Old Norse fœtha to feed, Old High German fuotan, Gothic fōthjan; see food, fodder

Idioms and Phrases with fed

feed

In addition to the idioms beginning with feed

feed one's face
feed someone a line
feed the kitty

also see:

bite the hand that feeds you
chicken feed
off one's feed
put on the feed bag

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verb (used without object), fed, feed·ing.

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