fed

¹

[ fed ]

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of feed.

fed

²

[ fed ]

noun

1. (sometimes initial capital letter) Slang. a federal official or law-enforcement officer.

Fed

³

[ fed ]

noun

1. the Fed, Informal. the Federal Reserve System.
2. the Federal Reserve Board.

fed.

⁴

abbreviation for

1. federal.
2. federated.
3. federation.

Fed.

⁵

abbreviation for

1. Federal.

Fed

¹

/ fɛd /

noun

1. the Fed informal.
   the Fed the Federal Reserve Bank or Federal Reserve Board

Fed.

²

abbreviation for

1. Federal
2. Federation
3. Federated

fed

³

/ fɛd /

noun

1. slang.
   an agent of the FBI

fed

⁴

/ fɛd /

verb

1. See feed
   the past tense and past participle of feed
2. fed to death informal.
   fed to deathfed to the teethfed up to the teethfed to the back teethfed up to the back teeth bored or annoyed

Word History and Origins

Origin of fed¹

First recorded in 1915–20; by shortening

Idioms and Phrases

Idioms

1. fed up, impatient; disgusted; bored:

   They were fed up with the same old routine.

Example Sentences

It just really fed into a lot of pathologies I had going for me.

From The Daily Beast

His keepers fed the beast copious amounts of port, Champagne, and whiskey to pacify the persnickety pachyderm.

From The Daily Beast

The one caveat: Asprey advises only buying butter made from grass-fed or pastured cows.

From The Daily Beast

“In a country that once fed the world, children were dying of malnourishment,” writes Ivereigh.

From The Daily Beast

Detainees were described, in graphic detail, being rectally fed against their will.

From The Daily Beast

At last Aristide fed him desperately, dandled him eventually to sleep, and returned to an excited pillow.

From Project Gutenberg

I have fed and slept at inns, living on the worst of fares and sleeping on the hardest, and hardly the cleanest, of beds.

From Project Gutenberg

Half-fed men would dig for diamonds, and men sheltered by a crazy roof erect the marble walls of palaces.

From Project Gutenberg

All were badly and insufficiently fed, as much from disorganized commissariat arrangements as from actual want of supplies.

From Project Gutenberg

So Hettie put the chicken in a cage, with some wool to cover it, and fed it several times every day, till it came to know her.

From Project Gutenberg