Definition of fed

"fed" in the noun sense

1. Federal, Fed, federal official

any federal law-enforcement officer

2. Federal Reserve System, Federal Reserve, Fed, FRS

the central bank of the United States incorporates 12 Federal Reserve branch banks and all national banks and state-chartered commercial banks and some trust companies

"the Fed seeks to control the United States economy by raising and lowering short-term interest rates and the money supply"

"fed" in the verb sense

1. feed

provide as food

"Feed the guests the nuts"

2. feed, give

give food to

"Feed the starving children in India"

"don't give the child this tough meat"

3. feed

feed into supply

"Her success feeds her vanity"

4. feed, feed in

introduce continuously

"feed carrots into a food processor"

5. feed

support or promote

"His admiration fed her vanity"

6. feed, eat

take in food used of animals only

"This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat"

"What do whales eat?"

7. feed

serve as food for be the food for

"This dish feeds six"

8. run, flow, feed, course

move along, of liquids

"Water flowed into the cave"

"the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi"

9. prey, feed

profit from in an exploitatory manner

"He feeds on her insecurity"

10. feed, feast

gratify

"feed one's eyes on a gorgeous view"

11. fertilize, fertilise, feed

provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to

"We should fertilize soil if we want to grow healthy plants"

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Quotations for fed

Well fed but ill taught. [ French Proverb ]

An alewive's sow is always well fed. [ Proverb ]

Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen.
Fallen from his high estate.
And welt'ring in his blood;
Deserted at his utmost need.
But those his former bounty fed;
On the bare earth exposed he lies,
With not a friend to close his eyes. [ Dryden ]

Deserted, at his utmost need,
By those his former bounty fed,
On the bare earth exposed be lies,
With not a friend to close his eyes. [ John Dryden ]

The chambers in the house of dreams
Are fed with so divine an air.
That Time's hoar wings grow young therein.
And they who walk there are most fair. [ Francis Thomson ]

Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed. [ Pope ]

Famished people must be slowly nursed,
And fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst. [ Byron ]

He hath fed too freely on a Neapolitan biscuit. [ Proverb ]

Love's arms were wreathed about the neck of Hope,
And Hope kiss'd Love, and Love drew in her breath
In that close kiss and drank her whispered tales.
They say that Love would die when Hope was gone.
And Love mourned long, and sorrowed after Hope;
At last she sought out Memory, and they trod
The same old paths where Love had walked with Hope,
And Memory fed the soul of Love with tears. [ Tennyson ]

And otherwhyles with amorous delights
And pleasing toyes he would her entertaine.
Now singing sweetly to surprise her sprights,
Now making layes of love and lover's paine,
Bransles, ballads, virelayes, and verses vaine!
Oft purposes, oft riddles, he devys'd;
And thousands like which flowed in his braine,
With which he fed her fancy, and entys'd
To take to his new love, and leave her old despys'd. [ Spenser ]

Better fed than taught, said the churl to the parson. [ Proverb ]

The fear that kills, and hope that is unwilling to be fed. [ Wordsworth ]

I had rather be fed with jack-boots than with such stories. [ Proverb ]

My dame fed her hens with mere thanks, and they laid no eggs. [ Proverb ]

He that is fed at another's hand may stay long ere he be full. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Guard against that vanity which courts a compliment, or is fed by it. [ Chalmers ]

Covetous rich men are not so well fed, clothed, or respected, as other men. [ Proverb ]

The imaginative faculty of the soul must be fed with objects immense and eterna1. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Eyes not down-dropped nor overbright, but fed with the clear-pointed flame of chastity. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

Trust in the Lord, and do good, so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed. [ Bible ]

Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

The sluices of the grog-shop are fed from the wine-glasses in the parlor, and there is a lineal descent from the gentleman who hiccoughs at his elegant dinner-table to the sot who makes a bed of the gutter. [ E. H. Chapin, D.D ]

He hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; he hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink; his intellect is not replenished; he is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts. [ William Shakespeare ]

Many a good intention dies from inattention. If, through carelessness or indolence, or selfishness, a good intention is not put into effect, we have lost an opportunity, demoralized ourselves, and stolen from the pile of possible good. To be born and not fed, is to perish. To launch a ship and neglect it is to lose it. To have a talent and bury it, is to be a wicked and slothful servant. For in the end we shall be judged, not alone by what we have done, but by what we could have done. [ Maltbie Babcock ]

fed in Scrabble®

The word fed is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

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fed in Words With Friends™

The word fed is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 7

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The 24 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In fed

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Words containing the sequence fed

Word Growth involving fed

Shorter words in fed

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Longer words containing fed

barfed

beefed

bottlefed

breastfed nonbreastfed

briefed debriefed undebriefed

briefed rebriefed

buffed counterbuffed

buffed rebuffed unrebuffed

buffed unbuffed

cefedrolor

chafed

chaffed

coiffed

confederacies

confederacy

confederative

cuffed handcuffed

cuffed scuffed unscuffed

cuffed uncuffed

dwarfed bedwarfed

enfeoffed

engulfed

failsafed

federal federalism

federal federalist antifederalist antifederalists

federal federalist federalistic federalistically

federal federalist federalists antifederalists

federal federalist federalists ultrafederalists

federal federalist ultrafederalist ultrafederalists

federal federalization

federal federalize federalized

federal federally

federal federals

federal nonfederal

federate confederate confederated

federate confederate confederates

federate federated confederated

federate federated nonfederated

federate federates confederates

federating confederating

federation confederation confederations

federation federations confederations

fedora fedoras

feds

fedup

flaffed

forcefed

fuffed

gaffed

golfed

goofed

grainfed

handfed

hoofed

huffed chuffed

kerchiefed

knifed jackknifed

knifed jacknifed

leafed

loafed

luffed bluffed outbluffed

luffed bluffed rebluffed

luffed bluffed unbluffed

luffed fluffed

luffed pluffed

midwifed

miffed unmiffed

mischiefed

misfed

muffed

nonfed nonfederal

nonfed nonfederated

overfed

poofed spoofed unspoofed

puffed nonpuffed

quaffed

quiffed

reefed

refed

roofed proofed acidproofed

roofed proofed airproofed

roofed proofed bombproofed

roofed proofed bugproofed

roofed proofed bulletproofed

roofed proofed childproofed

roofed proofed crashproofed

roofed proofed creaseproofed

roofed proofed dampproofed

roofed proofed dogproofed

roofed proofed draftproofed

roofed proofed draughtproofed

roofed proofed dustproofed

roofed proofed flameproofed

roofed proofed foolproofed

roofed proofed frostproofed

roofed proofed goofproofed

roofed proofed greaseproofed

roofed proofed heatproofed

roofed proofed leakproofed

roofed proofed lightproofed

roofed proofed mothproofed

roofed proofed ovenproofed

roofed proofed pestproofed

roofed proofed pilferproofed

roofed proofed quakeproofed

roofed proofed rainproofed

roofed proofed reproofed fireproofed

roofed proofed rotproofed

roofed proofed rustproofed

roofed proofed scratchproofed

roofed proofed shatterproofed

roofed proofed shockproofed

roofed proofed shrinkproofed

roofed proofed sightproofed

roofed proofed soundproofed

roofed proofed splashproofed

roofed proofed stainproofed

roofed proofed stockproofed

roofed proofed stormproofed

roofed proofed sunproofed

roofed proofed tearproofed

roofed proofed waterproofed

roofed proofed weatherproofed

roofed proofed windproofed

roofed reroofed

roofed unroofed

ruffed gruffed

scarfed

scoffed

selfeducate selfeducated

selfeducate selfeducates

selfeducating

selfeducation selfeducations

selfeducative

selfeducator selfeducators

sheafed

skiffed

snarfed

sniffed

snuffed

spiffed

spoonfed

staffed destaffed

staffed overstaffed

staffed restaffed

staffed shortstaffed

staffed understaffed

staffed unstaffed

stiffed

stuffed destuffed

stuffed overstuffed

stuffed restuffed

stuffed understuffed

stuffed unstuffed

surfed bodysurfed

surfed kitesurfed

surfed skysurfed

surfed windsurfed

tariffed

turfed

underfed

unfed

vouchsafed

wellfed

whiffed

winterfed

wolfed

woofed

yaffed