Unscramble feeding

Definition of feeding

noun:

• the act of consuming food. Synonyms: eating.
• the act of supplying food and nourishment. Synonyms: alimentation.

verb:

• provide as food; "Feed the guests the nuts". Synonyms: feed.
• give food to; "Feed the starving children in India", "don't give the child this tough meat". Synonyms: feed, give. Antonyms: starve.
• feed into; supply; "Her success feeds her vanity". Synonyms: feed.
• introduce continuously; "feed carrots into a food processor". Synonyms: feed, feed in.
• support or promote; "His admiration fed her vanity". Synonyms: feed.
• take in food; used of animals only; "This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat", "What do whales eat?". Synonyms: eat, feed.
• serve as food for; be the food for; "This dish feeds six". Synonyms: feed.
• move along, of liquids; "Water flowed into the cave", "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi". Synonyms: course, feed, flow, run.
• profit from in an exploitatory manner; "He feeds on her insecurity". Synonyms: feed, prey.
• gratify; "feed one's eyes on a gorgeous view". Synonyms: feast, feed.
• provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to; "We should fertilize soil if we want to grow healthy plants". Synonyms: feed, fertilise, fertilize.

Related words

aliment, banqueting, bite, bottlefeed, breakfast, breastfeed, browse, browsing, chomp, circulate, coprophagia, coprophagy, corn, crop, degustation, dine, dining, drain, dribble, dung, eddy, engorgement, feasting, filter, flush, fodder, forage, gavage, graze, grazing, gush, gutter, inject, jet, lactate, lactation, lunch, lunching, malnourish, mycophagy, necrophagia, necrophagy, nitrify, nourish, nurse, nutrify, omophagia, ooze, overfeed, overfeeding, pasture, pour, purl, range, raven, regurgitate, relishing, repletion, savoring, savouring, scatophagy, scavenge, seep, slop, spill, spoonfeed, spoonfeeding, stream, suck, suckle, suckling, supping, surfeit, surge, swill, swirl, tasting, tide, topdress, trickle, undernourish, waste, whirl, whirlpool.

Words nearby

feeling.

Rhymes with

beading, bleeding, breeding, ceding, conceding, exceeding, impeding, inbreeding, leading, misleading, misreading, pleading, preceding, proceeding, proceeding, reading, receding, receding, speeding, succeeding.