feeding
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Definition of feeding
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 schedulefeeding behavior
2 : an instance of feeding two a.m. feedings ready for a feeding
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