feed: meaning and words from its letters
4 letters · 8 letter points · starts with F · ends with D
Meaning of feed
verb
- transitive
To give (someone or something) food to eat.
Example: Feed the dog every evening.
- intransitive
To eat (usually of animals).
Example: Spiders feed on gnats and flies.
- ditransitive
To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food.
Example: Don't feed him too much; he's still a baby.
- transitive
To give to a machine to be processed.
Example: Feed the paper gently into the document shredder.
Listed forms: feeds, feeding, fed.
Source: Wiktionary — feed.
noun
- uncountable
Food given to (especially herbivorous) non-human animals.
Example: They sell feed, riding helmets, and everything else for horses.
- countable, uncountable
Something supplied continuously.
Example: a satellite feed
- countable, uncountable
The part of a machine that supplies the material to be operated upon.
Example: the paper feed of a printer
- countable, uncountable
The part of a fountain pen that supplies ink to the nib.
Listed forms: feeds.
Source: Wiktionary — feed.
verb
- form-of, participle, past
simple past and past participle of fee
Base or related entry: fee.
Source: Wiktionary — feed.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for feed.
noun
food for domestic livestock
verb
give food to
verb
introduce continuously
- feed in
verb
take in food; used of animals only
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is feed in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of feed
F(4) + E(1) + E(1) + D(2) = 8 points.
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Anagrams of feed
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
No other single-word anagram was found in our standard list.
Shorter words from feed
6 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in feed. Showing up to 24, longest first.