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(ditransitive) To give (someone or something) food to eat.
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Feed the dog every evening.
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To eat (usually of animals).
example
Spiders feed on gnats and flies.
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To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food.
example
Feed the fish to the dolphins.
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To give to a machine to be processed.
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Feed the paper gently into the document shredder.
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To satisfy, gratify, or minister to (a sense, taste, desire, etc.).
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To supply with something.
example
Springs feed ponds with water.
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To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle.
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If grain is too forward in autumn, feed it with sheep.
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To pass to.
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(of a phonological rule) To create the environment where another phonological rule can apply; to be applied before another rule.
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Nasalization feeds raising.
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(of a syntactic rule) To create the syntactic environment in which another syntactic rule is applied; to be applied before another syntactic rule.