fed
/fษd/IPA: /F EH1 D/
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A federal government officer or official, especially FBI, CIA, NSA, ATF, and DEA agents.
โThat corrupt fed was caught taking bribes from a mobster!โ
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A police officer.
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A โfederationโ in which powerlifters organize to compete.
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(ditransitive) To give (someone or something) food to eat.
โFeed the dog every evening.โ
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To eat (usually of animals).
โSpiders feed on gnats and flies.โ
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To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food.
โFeed the fish to the dolphins.โ
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To give to a machine to be processed.
โFeed the paper gently into the document shredder.โ
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To satisfy, gratify, or minister to (a sense, taste, desire, etc.).
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To supply with something.
โSprings feed ponds with water.โ
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To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle.
โIf grain is too forward in autumn, feed it with sheep.โ
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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.
โNasalization feeds raising.โ
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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.
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