feeds (on, upon, or off)

verb

present tense third-person singular of feed (on, upon, or off)
as in stalks
to seize and eat (something) as prey the flycatcher is a bird that—as its name suggests—feeds on winged insects in midair

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for feeds (on, upon, or off)
  1. stalks
  2. chases
  3. hunts
  4. destroys
Verb
  • Hell stalks the delegates of Lethe House in the conclusion to the Ninth House trilogy.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2026
  • So instead of cruising neighborhoods the way God and nature intended, Rodriguez stalks a captive audience.
    — Allyson Reedy, Denver Post, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of stalks
Verb
  • Mortgage interest rates are climbing faster than a squirrel scaling a tree after my dog chases it.
    — Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 3 Oct. 2026
  • Be the man who chases, not the man who laughs with the group.
    — Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of chases
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  • They are trapped inside and have to complete six games and escape for a supernatural figure hunts them down.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 29 Sep. 2026
  • Jordan hunts estate sales, thrift stores and EcoSet, flips Facebook Marketplace scores and tends an ever-growing plant collection, treating her cozy apartment as a long-term nesting ground between film and TV jobs.
    — Lina Abascal, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of hunts
Verb
  • Unlike a measurement that absorbs or destroys the photons, this method can extract information while preserving the photons themselves.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 10 Oct. 2026
  • Raking or shredding those leaves destroys the next generation.
    — Manjot Kaur Sidhu, The Conversation, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of destroys
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“Feeds (on, upon, or off).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/feeds%20%28on%2C%20upon%2C%20or%20off%29. Accessed 21 Oct. 2026.

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