fed

/fɛd/

noun

  1. 1

    A federal government officer or official, especially FBI, CIA, NSA, ATF, and DEA agents.

    That corrupt fed was caught taking bribes from a mobster!
  2. 2

    A police officer.

noun

  1. 1

    A “federation” in which powerlifters organize to compete.

verb

  1. 1

    (ditransitive) To give (someone or something) food to eat.

    Feed the dog every evening.
  2. 2

    To eat (usually of animals).

    Spiders feed on gnats and flies.
  3. 3

    To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food.

    Feed the fish to the dolphins.
  4. 4

    To give to a machine to be processed.

    Feed the paper gently into the document shredder.
  5. 5

    To satisfy, gratify, or minister to (a sense, taste, desire, etc.).

  6. 6

    To supply with something.

    Springs feed ponds with water.
  7. 7

    To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle.

    If grain is too forward in autumn, feed it with sheep.
  8. 8

    To pass to.

  9. 9

    (of a phonological rule) To create the environment where another phonological rule can apply; to be applied before another rule.

    Nasalization feeds raising.
  10. 10

    (of a syntactic rule) To create the syntactic environment in which another syntactic rule is applied; to be applied before another syntactic rule.

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