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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Fed \Fed\ (f[e^]d),
     imp. & p. p. of {Feed}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Feed \Feed\ (f[=e]d), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fed} (f[e^]d); p. pr.
     & vb. n. {Feeding}.] [AS. f[=e]dan, fr. f[=o]da food; akin to
     OS. f[=o]dian, OFries. f[=e]da, f[=o]da, D. voeden, OHG.
     fuottan, Icel. f[ae][eth]a, Sw. f["o]da, Dan. f["o]de.
     [root]75. See {Food}.]
     1. To give food to; to supply with nourishment; to satisfy
        the physical huger of.
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              If thine enemy hunger, feed him.      --Rom. xii.
                                                    20.
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              Unreasonable creatures feed their young. --Shak.
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     2. To satisfy; gratify or minister to, as any sense, talent,
        taste, or desire.
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              I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
                                                    --Shak.
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              Feeding him with the hope of liberty. --Knolles.
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     3. To fill the wants of; to supply with that which is used or
        wasted; as, springs feed ponds; the hopper feeds the mill;
        to feed a furnace with coal.
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     4. To nourish, in a general sense; to foster, strengthen,
        develop, and guard.
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              Thou shalt feed my people Israel.     --2 Sam. v. 2.
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              Mightiest powers by deepest calms are fed. --B.
                                                    Cornwall.
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     5. To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by
        cattle; as, if grain is too forward in autumn, feed it
        with sheep.
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              Once in three years feed your mowing lands.
                                                    --Mortimer.
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     6. To give for food, especially to animals; to furnish for
        consumption; as, to feed out turnips to the cows; to feed
        water to a steam boiler.
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     7. (Mach.)
        (a) To supply (the material to be operated upon) to a
            machine; as, to feed paper to a printing press.
        (b) To produce progressive operation upon or with (as in
            wood and metal working machines, so that the work
            moves to the cutting tool, or the tool to the work).
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Fed
       n 1: any federal law-enforcement officer [syn: {Federal}, {federal
            official}]
       2: the central bank of the United States; incorporates 12
          Federal Reserve branch banks and all national banks and
          state charted commercial banks and some trust companies;
          "the Fed seeks to control the United States economy by
          raising and lowering short-term interest rates and the
          money supply" [syn: {Federal Reserve System}, {Federal
          Reserve}, {FRS}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  feed
       n : food for domestic livestock [syn: {provender}]
       v 1: provide as food; "Feed the guests the nuts"
       2: give food to; "Feed the starving children in India"; "don't
          give the child this tough meat" [syn: {give}] [ant: {starve}]
       3: feed into; supply; "Her success feeds her vanity"
       4: introduce continuously; "feed carrots into a food processor"
          [syn: {feed in}]
       5: support or promote; "His admiration fed her vanity"
       6: take in food; used of animals only; "This dog doesn't eat
          certain kinds of meat"; "What do whales eat?" [syn: {eat}]
       7: serve as food for; be the food for; "This dish feeds six"
       8: move along, of liquids; "Water flowed into the cave"; "the
          Missouri feeds into the Mississippi" [syn: {run}, {flow},
          {course}]
       9: profit from in an exploitatory manner; "He feeds on her
          insecurity" [syn: {prey}]
       10: gratify; "feed one's eyes on a gorgeous view" [syn: {feast}]
       11: provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to; "We should
           fertilize soil if we want to grow healthy plants" [syn: {fertilize},
            {fertilise}]
       [also: {fed}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  fed
       See {feed}

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  109 Moby Thesaurus words for "fed":
     Bow Street runner, FBI, FBI agent, Federal, G-man, MP,
     Secret Service, Sherlock Holmes, T-man, agent, amanuensis,
     baggage agent, bailiff, beadle, beagle, bound bailiff,
     business agent, captain, catchpole, chief of police, claim agent,
     clerk, commercial agent, commission agent, commissioner, consignee,
     constable, customer agent, deputy, deputy sheriff, detective, dupe,
     factor, federal, federal agent, flic, freight agent, functionary,
     gendarme, general agent, government man, hotel detective,
     house detective, house dick, implement, inquiry agent, inspector,
     instrument, insurance agent, investigator, land agent, law agent,
     lictor, lieutenant, literary agent, loan agent, mace-bearer,
     marshal, mounted policeman, narc, news agent, officer, official,
     operative, parliamentary agent, passenger agent, patrolman,
     peace officer, plainclothesman, police captain,
     police commissioner, police constable, police detective,
     police inspector, police matron, police officer, police sergeant,
     policeman, policewoman, portreeve, press agent, private detective,
     private investigator, puppet, purchasing agent, real estate agent,
     reeve, revenuer, roundsman, sales agent, secretary, sergeant,
     sergeant at arms, sheriff, sleuth, special agent, station agent,
     steward, store detective, superintendent, theatrical agent,
     ticket agent, tipstaff, tipstaves, tool, travel agent,
     treasury agent, trooper, walking delegate
  
  

















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