fed
noun
- 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
A police officer.
noun
- 1
A “federation” in which powerlifters organize to compete.
verb
- 1
(ditransitive) To give (someone or something) food to eat.
“Feed the dog every evening.”
- 2
To eat (usually of animals).
“Spiders feed on gnats and flies.”
- 3
To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food.
“Feed the fish to the dolphins.”
- 4
To give to a machine to be processed.
“Feed the paper gently into the document shredder.”
- 5
To satisfy, gratify, or minister to (a sense, taste, desire, etc.).
- 6
To supply with something.
“Springs feed ponds with water.”
- 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
To pass to.
- 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
(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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