(ditransitive) To give (someone or something) food to eat.
Feed the dog every evening.
To eat (usually of animals).
Spiders feed on gnats and flies.
To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food.
Feed the fish to the dolphins.
To give to a machine to be processed.
Feed the paper gently into the document shredder.
To satisfy, gratify, or minister to (a sense, taste, desire, etc.).
To supply with something.
Springs feed ponds with water.
To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle.
If grain is too forward in autumn, feed it with sheep.
To pass to.
(of a phonological rule) To create the environment where another phonological rule can apply; to be applied before another rule.
Nasalization feeds raising.
(of a syntactic rule) To create the syntactic environment in which another syntactic rule is applied; to be applied before another syntactic rule.