feeding

noun

feed·​ing ˈfē-diŋ 

1

: the act or process of eating or being fed

For a while zoos tried to control feeding by providing vending machines with pellets, but most have now banned it entirely.

—Phillip T. Robinson

—often used before another noun

a feeding schedule

feeding behavior

2

: an instance of feeding

two a.m. feedings

ready for a feeding

Examples of feeding in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

There's also a kaka aviary and feeding station in the woods near the main lodge. —Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 May 2026

Wildfires in 2020, particularly the CZU Lightning Fire, burned 86,509 acres across the Santa Cruz Mountains in San Mateo and Santa Cruz counties, destroying a huge portion of their feeding grounds. —Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 26 May 2026

Proper watering, pruning, and feeding are key to achieving bigger rose blooms. —Gemma Johnstone, The Spruce, 25 May 2026

Even by recent standards of true crime consumption, where appetite for morbid and procedural play-by-plays has felt all but bottomless, the rapidly developing story’s many tentacles prompted a voracious true-crime feeding frenzy. —Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 25 May 2026

Word History

First Known Use

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Phrases Containing feeding

• breast-feeding
• care and feeding
• feeding frenzy
• feeding ground
• feeding tube

Rhymes for feeding

• beading
• bleeding
• breeding
• ceding
• heeding
• kneading
• leading
• needing
• pleading
• reding
• seeding
• speeding