Feed On

Definition: Feed On

Feed On

Verb

1. Be sustained by; "He fed on the great ideas of her mentor".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Feed On

Servility

Pay court to; feed on, fatten on, dance attendance on, pin oneself upon, hang on the sleeve of, avaler les couleuvres, keep time to, fetch and carry, do the dirty work of.

Crosswords: Feed On

I feed on those who cross my path. (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice)

Give me a shovel and put some feed on my plate (Ain't No Place Like Home; performing artist: Prince)

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Books

• Insects That Feed on Trees and Shrubs (reference)

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Primarily a disease of the tropics, Dengue Fever is caused by one of four viruses of the genus Flavivrus and is spread by Aedes aegypti, a domestic, day-biting mosquito that prefers to feed on humans. Credit: CDC.

The Snapping turtle, Chelydra serpentina, is easily confused with the alligator snapping turtle. Considered ill-tempered, they feed on invertebrates, fish, reptiles, carrion, etc. and a surprising amount of vegetation. These turtles trapped in the fresh and brackish waters of bay tributaries and sold to restaurants for use in soups and stews. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Seagulls feed on stranded lobsters and surf clams after the oil spill incident. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

North Inlet - Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Loggerhead sea turtles nest on South Carolina beaches from May to August. Adult and juvenile sea turtles can be observed in South Carolina estuaries during most months of the year where they feed on a variety of shellfish. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve Monarch butterfly - Danaus plexippus. These beautiful butterflies are poisonous to predators and feed on the reserves many milkweed plants. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Two types of Chromis sp. on acropora coral head Fish feed on zooplankton from water column These fish use the coral for protection from predation. Credit: The Coral Kingdom.

Common inshore red goatfish - Parupeneus porphyreus These fish feed on small crustaceans and swallow them whole. Credit: The Coral Kingdom.

Diamondback moth larvae feed on a cabbage leaf. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Doug Wilson..

Lee Betties, rural rehabilitation client, with sack of horse and mule feed on rear of his wagon, leaving general store at Woodville, Greene County, Georgia. Credit: Library of Congress.

Sack of feed on bumper of automobile. Brownwood, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Thus, at the beginning, Cain might take as much ground as he could till, and make it his own land, and yet leave enough to Abel's sheep to feed on; a few acres would serve for both their possessions. (Second Treatise of Government)

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However, now and then they take a whale that happens to be dashed against the rocks, which the common people feed on heartily.

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Health

To live, the nymph must feed on blood. (references)

To live, adult lice need to feed on blood. (references)

Females lay eggs. To live, adult lice need to feed on blood. (references)

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Chinese 

捕食 (catch and feed on, prey on). (various references)

German

zehren von (live off, live on), eingeben (enter, entered, feed in, give, input, inspire, key, key in, put in, read in, supply, to input, to supply), einführen (bring in, establish, feed in, import, induct, infix, innovate, install, institute, introduce, introduces, launch, orientate, present, set, start, superinduce, to inaugurate, to induct, to initiate, to introduce, to spearhead, to superinduce, usher, work in). (various references)

Greek 

τρέφομαι με. (various references)

Italian

nutrirsi (eat). (various references)

Pig Latin

eedfay onay

Spanish

dar (accord, be in, bear, begin, cause, deal, gift, give, give off, go for, grow, hand, lecture, lend, matter, overlook, perform, play, present, produce, prolong, put on, say, shine, show, start, surrender, take, take to, teach, to give, turn on, yield). (various references)

Thai

ไ�"้รับ (สิ่งพึงพอใจ) จาก, อยากเป็นที่ยอมรับของ, กินอาหารประเ� ท. (various references)

Ukrainian

харчуватися (board, eat, live, nosh, subsist). (various references)

parant, parat, paratis, paris, parit, pascam, pascant, pascantur, pascas, pascat, pascatur, pasce, pascebam, pascebant, pascebantur, pascebat, pascenda, pascendis, pascent, pascentem, pascentes, pascentium, pascentur, pascere, pascerent, pasceret, pasceris, pasces, pascet, pascetur, pascis, pascit, pascite, pascitur, pascunt, pascuntur, pastorum, pastu, pastum, pavere, paverim, pavi, pavimus, pavisti, pavit, vescamini, vescamur, vescar, vescaris, vescatur, vescebantur, vescebatur, vescemini, vescendi, vescendum, vescentes, vescentibus, vescentur, vescere, vesceretur, vesceris, vescetur, vesci, vescimini, vescuntur. (various references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: donee.

-2 letters: dene, done, feed, fend, feod, fond, need, node.

-3 letters: dee, den, doe, don, end, eon, fed, fee, fen, foe, fon, nee, nod, ode, one.

-4 letters: de, do, ed, ef, en, ne, no, od, oe, of, on.

+2 letters: enfolded, enfolder, enforced, fomented, foredone, forefend, offended, offender, softened.

+3 letters: confected, conferred, confessed, defection, enfeoffed, enfolders, festooned, forefends, forenamed, forfended, foundered, infeoffed, offenders, refounded, refronted, sevenfold, unfreedom.

+4 letters: beforehand, centerfold, coinferred, confederal, confidence, defecation, defections, deflection, federation, ferredoxin, fieldstone, floundered, fondnesses, forefended, forehanded, forewarned, freedwoman, freedwomen, nondefense, nonfederal, overfunded, reenforced, reinforced, reinformed, renotified, tenderfoot, undeformed, unenforced, unforested, unfreedoms, unreformed.