fed

/fษ›d/

IPA: /F EH1 D/

noun
  1. 1

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

    โ€œThat corrupt fed was caught taking bribes from a mobster!โ€

  2. 2

    A police officer.

noun
  1. 1

    A โ€œfederationโ€ in which powerlifters organize to compete.

verb
  1. 1

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

    โ€œFeed the dog every evening.โ€

  2. 2

    To eat (usually of animals).

    โ€œSpiders feed on gnats and flies.โ€

  3. 3

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

    โ€œFeed the fish to the dolphins.โ€

  4. 4

    To give to a machine to be processed.

    โ€œFeed the paper gently into the document shredder.โ€

  5. 5

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

  6. 6

    To supply with something.

    โ€œSprings feed ponds with water.โ€

  7. 7

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

    โ€œIf grain is too forward in autumn, feed it with sheep.โ€

  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.

    โ€œNasalization feeds raising.โ€

  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.

Synonyms

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fed