feed is one of the 1000 most common headwords.
favour - feed - feel

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Plain form
feed

Third-person singular
feeds

Past tense
fed

Past participle
fed

Present participle
feeding

 
An adult feeding a baby
  1. (transitive) When you feed someone, you give them food to eat.
    I feed my dog chicken bones every day.
  2. (intransitive) To eat.
    Farm-raised chickens feed on grain.
  3. (transitive) To give something to a machine.
    To start printing, feed the paper into the printer.
    Don't forget to feed the parking meter.

Singular
feed

Plural
feeds

  1. (uncountable) Food that is eaten by animals.
    Bird feed consists mainly of seeds.