FEEDS Synonyms: 122 Similar and Opposite Words

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verb

present tense third-person singular of feed

as in boards

to provide food or meals for a charity dedicated to feeding the hungry

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as in provides

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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as in eats

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

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diets
fasts

feeds

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noun

plural of feed

as in dinners

a large fancy meal often accompanied by ceremony or entertainment the company barbecue was an elaborate feed that was enlivened by country music and dancing

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as in meals

food eaten or prepared for eating at one time after soccer practice we were all ready for a hot shower and a satisfying feed

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Recent Examples of feeds

Verb

The group Brin helped set up, Building a Better California, funded a deluge of ads featuring firefighters, teachers and Newsom that saturated California’s airwaves and social media feeds this fall. — Ben Paviour, Sacbee.com, 4 Nov. 2026 Restaurants can be a catalyst in fighting food insecurity by working alongside nonprofits and the city government to create a model that feeds New Yorkers and strengthens small businesses and the communities that serve them. — Matt Jozwiak, New York Daily News, 3 Nov. 2026 Contemporary social media platforms have abandoned dense lexical fields in favor of single- or multi-stream continuous content feeds (infinite scrolls) or thumbnail grids. — Alec Mapes-Frances, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2026 The ring filters the light to a precise frequency and feeds a portion of it back into the laser, helping produce a much steadier beam, the researchers said. — Muskan Bhatia, Interesting Engineering, 30 Oct. 2026 Of course that feeds into the backstories of some of the characters. — Kat Chen, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Oct. 2026 Ask vendors how their predictive models weight channels and what data feeds them. — Ivan Guzenko, Forbes.com, 26 Oct. 2026 Peppered between political content on the Bulletin’s social media feeds is a smattering of reels related to nonpolitical news, often featuring videos lifted directly from local TV stations. — Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2026 For the latest schedule, ticket links and menu changes, consult the pop-ups’ Instagram feeds. — Sam Flemming, AJC.com, 25 Oct. 2026

Noun

The concealer lips revival itself borrows from an early 2000s look, which hints that the muted aesthetic may resurface in new forms even if these specific labels disappear from feeds. — Ashley Lynch, Kansas City Star, 3 Nov. 2026 Opponents have raised more than $350 million to fight the tax and back measures that could block it, and some of that is going to sponsored posts in voters’ social media feeds. — Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2026 The partners are entitled to league data, feeds, the NFL, and team marks. — Outkick, FOXNews.com, 27 Oct. 2026 Yet Ossoff’s media strategy of filling social feeds with digestible hits from his rallies is inevitably a national one. — Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 26 Oct. 2026 Live camera feeds allowed operators to monitor lifting operations and control the cranes remotely from ground level. — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2026 Constant notifications, social media feeds, messaging apps, and an endless stream of information compete for our attention throughout the day. — Kriti Kumar, Vogue, 24 Oct. 2026 Social feeds and Reddit threads are where most grocery dupe discoveries happen, with shoppers posting side by side comparisons and taste tests of store brands against national favorites. — Ashley Lynch, Charlotte Observer, 23 Oct. 2026 The core is our Global Trade Optimizer, a proprietary should-cost platform with thousands of cost models and live feeds on commodity inputs, raw material costs, labor rates and tariffs. — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 23 Oct. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for feeds

Verb

Nobody boards the bus expecting to become an accounting entry.

— Jason Lloyd, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026
Susana Cabrera, Founder of SC Growth Counsel, helps CEOs and boards pressure-test high-stakes decisions before committing capital.

— Susana Cabrera, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of boards

Verb

But with Ameen on violin, this dynamic is inverted, and the intermingling of their strings on the recording provides a unique tonal color.

— Levi Dayan, Pitchfork, 3 Nov. 2026
The model provides a baseline for understanding what a planet’s atmosphere might look like without life.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 3 Nov. 2026

Definition of provides

Verb

Recycle Other Parts Remember that recycling your pumpkins doesn’t have to mean that the wildlife eats the fleshy orange stuff directly.

— Sarah Everett, The Spruce, 2 Nov. 2026
It’s served split open, face down, drenched in the peppery sauce, and eats almost like an au jus sandwich.

— Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2026

Definition of eats

Noun

At first there was just some casual small talk between them, then walks with their dogs, followed by dinners at pubs away from prying eyes and, finally, evenings spent cooking together.

— Stefania Conrieri, Vanity Fair, 4 Nov. 2026
Spread out across expansive work stations that resemble gleaming kitchen cubicles, chefs spend their days whipping up meals from soup to nuts, a laboratory of sorts to create appetizing and easy dinners to make at home.

— Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of dinners

Noun

Food and drink Some guests at Kapano and Dithaba may choose to visit Lelapo for meals (the menu is the same everywhere).

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Nov. 2026
The novel attends to their quiet conversations, their modest meals, their everyday work, whether caring for the sick, staffing a thrift shop or demolishing a silo.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2026

Definition of meals

Verb

Wynn Resorts, which caters almost exclusively to high-end customers, has opted to maintain its high room rates in Las Vegas even as visitation has slowed over the past year, rather than filling every room with travelers looking for a bargain.

— Contessa Brewer,Ryan Ruggiero, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2026
One came from Merlin Verrier, who caters touring artists at venues such as Red Rocks Park and Amphitheatre under the name Hot Like Sauce.

— Miguel Otárola, Denver Post, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of caters

Verb

Hemphill says doing the main pruning in spring prevents winter damage to tender young shoots and gives them a clean start for the new season.

— The Spruce, The Spruce, 8 Nov. 2026
Cocktails here are pretty and punchy, and the open-air setting gives it a truly Mediterranean vibe.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Nov. 2026

Definition of gives

Noun

Built around three Sichuan-style banquets, the show uses painting, video and installation to explore the region’s culture and its ideas about life and death.

— Lin Ying-Hsuan, Variety, 1 Nov. 2026
The wave-like architecture of the banquets means each nook of the restaurant feels private.

— Khushbu Shah, Bon Appetit Magazine, 20 Oct. 2026