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FEED/fiːd/

Feed means to give food to a person or an animal: feed the baby, feed the dog. Eat is what you do with your own food; feed is what you do for someone else. Feed is irregular: feed, fed, fed. Not food (the noun) — feed is the verb. Feed the ducks; feeding time at the zoo.

Meaning

To give food to a person or an animal.

Examples

• “Please feed the cat.”
• “Who will feed the fish this week?”
• “She fed the horse an apple.”

Good to know

feed someone (verb). Past: fed. Contrast: eat (yourself), food (noun).

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