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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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After the raid at the home last year, authorities found that almost every room in the house was equipped with surveillance cameras that fed a series of monitors in the parents’ bedroom, Queally said. — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026 It's fed by coldwater streams and can support salmon and trout. — CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026 Many users did not seek out Guillard’s videos, but were instead fed them by algorithms, according to the professor. — Sally Krutzig, Idaho Statesman, 14 Oct. 2026 Such outlets depended heavily on taxpayer funding, which fed into state advertising and government communication campaigns, and have now lost the support that kept them afloat. — Dominique Soguel, Christian Science Monitor, 13 Oct. 2026 Before opening Creola, Lagomarsini oversaw a string of pop-ups, including a recent dinner series inspired by the Club from Nowhere, the civil-rights activist Georgia Gilmore’s kitchen network, which fed and funded the Montgomery bus boycott. — Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2026 Lars Eller fed Jones coming down the left side just as Dmitry Kulikov was coming out of the penalty box. — Miami Herald, 7 Oct. 2026 The landscape is framed by 150 specimen trees sourced from the New York Botanical Garden and a sprawling, spring-fed pond. — Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 7 Oct. 2026 Hopkins fed Debinha’s late-arriving run perfectly, and within two touches Debinha put it past Bay FC goalkeeper Jordan Silkowitz. — Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 7 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fed
  1. tracker
  2. boarded
  3. provided
  4. ate
  5. narc
  6. catered
  7. supplied
  8. dined
Noun
  • The Economist’s poll tracker suggests that Likud and Yashar are neck-and-neck, on 22 seats each; that Netanyahu’s coalition will fall short of the 61 seats needed for a majority; but that Eisenkot’s coalition is likely to fall short too.
    — The Week UK, TheWeek, 18 Oct. 2026
  • OpenAI’s public tracker of misalignment, or behavior that goes against instructions or safety rules, now lists 19 incidents, ranging from accessing data without permission to making unauthorized changes to business systems.
    — Camila Grigera Naón, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of tracker
Verb
  • Additionally, Merritt Wever, Mason Gooding and Abbey Lee have joined the cast, while The Bear creator Chris Storer has boarded as an exec producer.
    — Peter White, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Video captured on Wednesday shows glass boarded up near the entrance, where witnesses said the shooting happened.
    — Doug Myers, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of boarded
Verb
  • Check out the first images of The Cold Song, provided exclusively to The Hollywood Reporter, below.
    — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Customers who had been due to fly on Saturday were provided with accommodation and rebooked on alternative flights, according to the airline.
    — Lianne Kolirin, CNN Money, 13 Oct. 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
  • He gets dinged for a pesky OWI, loses his job at CBS, and then gets outed by some nark in Oklahoma.
    — Zach Dean OutKick, FOXNews.com, 8 Oct. 2026
  • But the very act of putting on a wearable—of willingly adorning oneself with a tiny computerized narc—is an act of surrender.
    — Hillary Busis, Vanity Fair, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of narc
Verb
  • Fox wears pieces catered toward the season’s major dress-up moments, including Halloween, holiday parties and New Year’s Eve.
    — Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 14 Oct. 2026
  • While the majority of guests were adults, children are well catered for at the hotel's restaurants, and the central location of the property makes getting home early easy.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of catered
Verb
  • Energy is supplied via a dense 85-kilowatt-hour pack running on an 800-volt electrical architecture, allowing a 10-to-80% DC fast charge in under 15 minutes while providing a maximum highway driving range of 249 miles (400 km).
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Resolving those issues is important because the weapon must not merely demonstrate its performance during testing but also be manufactured consistently and supplied in sufficient numbers.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of supplied
Verb
  • Swift and Kelce dined at the Jane Hotel, which is located in the heart of the West Village in Manhattan.
    — Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2026
  • After the vigil, Mamdani dined at Palestinian restaurant Ayat on the Upper West Side.
    — Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of dined

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“Fed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fed. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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