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Feeding - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | feed |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give nourishment; augment |
| Synonyms: | banquet, bolster, cater, cram, deliver, dine, dish out*, dispense, encourage, fatten, feast, fill, find, foster, fuel, furnish, give, gorge, hand, hand over, maintain, minister, nourish, nurse, nurture, provide, provision, regale, satisfy, stock, strengthen, stuff, supply, support, sustain, wine and dine*, victual |
| Antonyms: | starve |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | farming |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | producing crops, raising animals |
| Synonyms: | agriculture, breeding, cultivation, culture, gardening, grazing, growing, harvesting, landscaping, operating, production, threshing, agronomics, agronomy, crop-raising, feeding, fertilizing, geoponics, gleaning, homesteading, hydroponics, ranching, reaping, seeding, share-cropping, soil culture, tillage |
| Main Entry: | tributary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | secondary; branch |
| Synonyms: | accessory, dependent, minor, satellite, shoot, side, sub, subject, subordinate, under, feeding |
| Antonyms: | original, primary, source |
| Main Entry: | grazing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | browsing |
| Synonyms: | biting, eating, battening, champing, cropping, feeding, foraging, gnawing, masticating, munching, nibbling, pasturing, ruminating, uprooting |
| Main Entry: | ranging |
| Part of Speech: | adjective1 |
| Definition: | grazing |
| Synonyms: | feeding, pasturing |
| Main Entry: | grazing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | keeping livestock on the range |
| Synonyms: | ranging, feeding, herding, pasturing |
| Main Entry: | nursing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective2 |
| Definition: | gaining nourishment by suckling |
| Synonyms: | sucking, suckling, feeding, milking, taking nourishment |
| Main Entry: | board |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | provide food and sleeping quarters |
| Synonyms: | accommodate, bed, canton, feed, harbor, house, lodge, put up, quarter, room, care for, let crash |
| Notes: | a board is a committee having supervisory powers, a plank, or food served to lodgers - while bored is tired of the world a plank is thicker than a board |
| Antonyms: | turn out |
| Main Entry: | bring up |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | raise youngster |
| Synonyms: | breed, cultivate, develop, discipline, educate, feed, form, foster, nourish, nurture, rear, school, support, teach, train, provide for |
| Main Entry: | browse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | look around; look through |
| Synonyms: | dip into*, feed, graze, nibble*, peruse, read, run through, scan, skim, survey, check over, examine cursorily, flip through, get the cream, give the once over, glance at, hit the high spots, inspect loosely, leaf through, once over lightly, pass an eye over, read here and there, riff through, riffle through, skip through, thumb through wander |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | consume |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | eat, drink |
| Synonyms: | absorb, bolt, chow down, devour, down, eat up, feed, gobble*, gorge, gulp, guzzle, hoover, ingest, ingurgitate, inhale, meal, mow*, nibble, partake, polish off*, punish, put away*, put down*, scarf*, snack, stuff one's face, swallow, swill, take, toss down*, wolf* |
| Antonyms: | fast, starve |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | deliver |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | discharge, give forth |
| Synonyms: | bear, birth, born, dispense, feed, find, hand, hand over, produce, provide, release, supply, turn over, accouch |
| Main Entry: | eat |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | consume food |
| Synonyms: | absorb, attack, banquet, bite, bolt*, break bread, breakfast, chew, cram*, devour, digest, dine, dispatch, dispose of, fall to, feed, gorge, gormandize, graze*, ingest, inhale*, lunch, masticate, munch, nibble, nosh*, pick, pig out*, polish off*, put away*, ruminate, scarf*, scoff, snack, swallow, take in, wolf, chow down, feast upon, gobble up, have a bite, have a meal, have for, make pig of oneself, partake of, peck at*, pork out, sup, take food, take nourishment |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | entertain |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | accommodate visitors |
| Synonyms: | admit, board, chaperone, dine, feed, foster, harbor, house, invite, lodge, nourish, put up*, quarter, receive, regale, room, treat, welcome, wine and dine*, be host, do the honors, give a party, have a do, have a get-together, have company, have guests, have visitors, pick up the check, pop for, recreate, show hospitality, spring for, throw a party |
| Antonyms: | refuse, reject, turn away |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fatten |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | grow or make bigger; nourish |
| Synonyms: | augment, bloat, broaden, build up, cram, distend, expand, feed, fill, increase, plump, spread, stuff, swell, thicken, thrive, wax, coarsen, gain weight, overfeed, put flesh on, put on weight, round out |
| Antonyms: | thin, undernourish |
| Main Entry: | fertilize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make ready to bear, produce |
| Synonyms: | beget, breed, compost, cover, dress, enrich, feed, fructify, generate, germinate, impregnate, inseminate, manure, mulch, pollinate, procreate, propagate, treat, fecundate, lime, make fruitful, make pregnant, top-dress |
| Main Entry: | foster |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | promote, support |
| Synonyms: | advance, back, champion, cherish, cultivate, encourage, feed, foment, forward, further, harbor, nurse, nurture, serve, stimulate, uphold |
| Antonyms: | condemn, discourage |
| Main Entry: | fuel |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give energy to |
| Synonyms: | charge, fan, feed, fill 'er up, fill up, fire, gas, gas up, incite, inflame, nourish, service, stoke up, supply, sustain, tank up |
| Antonyms: | de-energize, deplete, discourage, unfuel |
| Main Entry: | furnish |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give, reveal information |
| Synonyms: | afford, bestow, deliver, dispense, endow, feed, grant, hand, hand over, offer, present, provide, supply, transfer, turn over |
| Antonyms: | conceal, hide, secret |
| Main Entry: | gorge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | eat voraciously |
| Synonyms: | bolt*, cloy, cram, devour, feed, fill, glut, gobble, gormandize, gulp, guzzle, jam, overeat, pack, sate, satiate, stuff*, surfeit, swallow, wolf*, blimp out, congest, eat like a horse, hoover, jade, make a pig of, overindulge |
| Antonyms: | abstain, diet, fast |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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