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verb

past tense of feed
1
as in boarded
to provide food or meals for a charity dedicated to feeding the hungry

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2
as in provided
to put (something) into the possession of someone for use or consumption all week long colleagues have been feeding me ideas for a magazine article

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3
as in ate
to take a meal an all-you-can-eat buffet where families can feed heartily and fairly inexpensively

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Recent Examples of fed
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As a result of his not working and constant need for financial support, his mother is pressured by him to keep him fed and provide a roof over his head. — R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 19 Aug. 2026 Children leave in the morning to play and return at night, somehow fed along the way. — Sara Ruffin Costello, Architectural Digest, 19 Aug. 2026 The development targets are forecasts up to 24 hours out on a roughly 1 kilometer grid, refreshed every 10 minutes, and fed by radar, satellites, ground stations, and even mobile pressure sensors from phones and IoT devices. — Sandy Carter, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026 Iran war puts military packages in limbo USA TODAY reported in April that sailors aboard the carrier and the USS Tripoli hadn't received care packages and weren't routinely being fed fresh food. — Erin Mansfield, USA Today, 17 Aug. 2026 Nulo also makes some food toppers and mixers, designed to be mixed with a complete and balanced dry food, not fed on their own. — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2026 To keep audiences interested and group chats well fed, an evolve-or-die mentality has to be adopted. — Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 12 Aug. 2026 That information fed into a prototype star sensor designed to operate under heavy radiation interference. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 12 Aug. 2026 Latest warnings follow recent biting incidents Preventive treatment might be required for anyone who handled, fed or was attacked by the infected animals. — Bryan Lynn, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fed
  1. tracker
  2. boarded
  3. provided
  4. ate
  5. narc
  6. catered
  7. supplied
  8. dined
Noun
  • Spacecraft find their bearings The experiment used Starling’s star-tracker cameras, which normally help determine a spacecraft’s orientation by observing bright objects in space.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Pixel Tag is a small tracker for things such as keys, wallets or luggage.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 15 Aug. 2026
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Verb
  • Today, it's fenced off and closed to the public, with windows that have been vandalized and boarded up.
    — James Taylor, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026
  • The National Gallery of Art, whose sculpture garden is along the course, has boarded up some of its outdoor works.
    — Rachel Treisman, NPR, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of boarded
Verb
  • The team was not able to recover nuclear DNA, which would have provided more detailed information.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Many are directed towards Ryan Giles, their attack-minded left-back, who regularly pushes forward on the overlap and provided eight league assists last season (illustrated below).
    — Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of provided
Verb
  • On one day in late December, Eden barely ate all day.
    — Angela Andaloro, People.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • While neither is an effective big league pitcher at this point, those moves ate into the Yankees’ limited rotation depth.
    — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 4 Aug. 2025
Definition of ate
Noun
  • The team's 33-15 loss gave it a 2-11 record, which is the worst nark in the NFC.
    — Robert Marvi, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2025
  • The software, which would effectively act like a narc embedded on people’s iPhones, could have unintended consequences, critics said, despite Apple’s assurances that it would be used solely to stop child predators.
    — Declan Harty, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2021
Definition of narc
Verb
  • Guisanderas were freelance cooks who prepared meals for people in their homes and catered for big events like baptisms and weddings.
    — Simon Willis, Travel + Leisure, 4 Aug. 2026
  • However, there were still developments highlighted at Kingpins that catered specifically to colder months.
    — Sarah Jones, Footwear News, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of catered
Verb
  • Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for five justices on the constitutional question, while Justice Brett Kavanaugh supplied the sixth vote for the judgment on statutory grounds.
    — Andy J. Semotiuk, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2026
  • By extending the reach of logistics operations, the system could also help units remain supplied for longer periods and improve the resilience of military sustainment networks in environments where traditional distribution methods may be disrupted.
    — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of supplied
Verb
  • People who once dined together, smiled together, campaigned together and worked together to strengthen our communities are suddenly being portrayed as villains.
    — Beau Simon, Sun Sentinel, 16 Aug. 2026
  • For 25 years, an international clientele dined in spectacular fashion at Windows on the World, the restaurant at the top of the World Trade Center’s north tower, where guests were served by an equally international staff.
    — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of dined

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