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
Etymology
Origin of feeding
before 900; Middle English feding, Old English fēding. See feed, -ing 1
Example Sentences
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Par for the course, maybe, but the episode was so grossly stupid, it gave birth to a resolution by scientists to stop feeding the media worst-case scenarios to misrepresent.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
Her husband tried feeding their child scraps of leftover bread as families huddled in an unfinished building near the outpost, some without proper food for days.
From Barron's • May 29, 2026
To uncover the mechanism, the team studied fruit flies, which are commonly used to investigate the neural circuits involved in feeding behavior.
From Science Daily • May 28, 2026
Accrington played Oldham and Barnet took on Newport - one winner feeding into the north and the other to the south.
From BBC • May 28, 2026
“Daisy,” I said, trying to act very serious, “if you don’t stop feeding our apples to those monkeys, we’re not going to have any apples left.”
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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