Synonyms of feeding

feeding

verb

present participle of feed

1

as in boarding

to provide food or meals for

a charity dedicated to feeding the hungry

Synonyms & Similar Words

• boarding
• catering
• sustaining
• serving
• provisioning
• waiting
• filling
• nurturing
• victualing
• messing
• feasting
• dining
• overfeeding
• nourishing
• fattening
• underfeeding
• banqueting
• regaling
• refeeding
• hand-feeding
• force-feeding
• battening
• spoon-feeding
• surfeiting
• reprovisioning

2

as in providing

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• providing
• supplying
• giving
• handing
• furnishing
• delivering
• distributing
• dispensing
• handing over
• administering
• dealing (out)
• allocating
• plying (with)
• apportioning
• transferring
• assigning
• prorating
• portioning
• doling out
• meting (out)
• ceding
• parceling (out)
• deeding
• making over

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• holding (back)
• keeping (back)
• retaining
• maintaining
• preserving
• saving
• withholding
• reserving
• conserving
• keeping up

3

as in eating

to take a meal

an all-you-can-eat buffet where families can feed heartily and fairly inexpensively

Synonyms & Similar Words

• eating
• dining
• feasting
• partaking
• breaking bread
• snacking
• refreshing
• faring
• nibbling
• overfeeding
• victualing
• grazing
• messing
• glutting
• banqueting
• gorging
• overeating
• lunching
• chowing (down)
• repasting
• supping
• picnicking
• breakfasting
• boarding
• picking
• dining out
• digging in
• noshing
• pigging out
• gormandizing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• fasting
• dieting

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of feeding

If baking less often, cover the jar of starter loosely and refrigerate 1 hour after feeding. — Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Aug. 2026

Outside the courtroom of this trial, traditional TV cameras sit side-by-side with cellphone cameras manned by new media journalists and commentators feeding an audience hungry, not just for true crime, but also for a look back in time. — Andy Rose, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2026

Construction schedules drop significantly This direct-current setup also stops unwanted energy from feeding back into the external power grid. — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 22 Aug. 2026

Time, at 3 am, to watch a mother polar bear and her two cubs feeding beneath a sun that refuses to set. — Sarah Kingdom, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2026

Remnant radio galaxies represent the final stage in the evolution of radio galaxies, at which point the jets from the galaxies' central regions, or active galactic nuclei (AGNs) powered by feeding supermassive black holes, have switched off. — Robert Lea, Space.com, 21 Aug. 2026

Not to be contrarian, but because the most important updates to your thinking will rarely come from sources that already agree with you — this is simply feeding your confirmation bias. — Big Think, 21 Aug. 2026

The scan, formally called a coronary artery calcium (CAC) score, uses a low-dose CT machine to measure calcified plaque inside the arteries feeding the heart. — Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 20 Aug. 2026

That money could have gone a long way to educating our children and feeding the poor. — Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2026

Phrases Containing feeding

• care and feeding