feeding
Americannoun
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the act of a person or thing that feeds.
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an instance of eating or of taking or being given nourishment.
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grazing land.
Other Word Forms
- nonfeeding adjective
- unfeeding adjective
Etymology
Origin of feeding
before 900; Middle English feding, Old English fēding. See feed, -ing 1
Example Sentences
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What he found instead was a girl about his age, his height, feeding a giraffe.
From Literature
For that, he proposes feeding the model all the laws, regulations and court cases involving questions of financial ethics in the U.S., from the Securities Act of 1933 up to the latest fraud trial.
A man in a baseball cap added, “The fire department is just as helpless as we are. The gas line broke, too, and the gas is feeding the flames.”
From Literature
Taking out the trash turns into a game of feeding the trash monster.
Dr. Wachter likens the situation to having “a baby that required constant feeding and diaper changes but never smiled at you.”
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