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Collocations for feed - noun

Feed is used before these nouns:
barley, mill, trough

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Feed is used after these nouns:
cattle, satellite

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Collocations for feed - verb

1. give food to a person/animal/plant

ADVERB

properly, well
Have they been feeding you well?
poorly
The children were poorly fed.
barely
She could barely feed and clothe herself.
regularly

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VERB + feed

help (to)
How can we feed a hungry world?
afford to
He could no longer afford to feed his family.

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PREPOSITION

on
She fed the children on junk food.
to
Most of the crop is fed to the cattle.
with
The animals are fed with hay and grass.

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PHRASES

a mouth to feed
He saw the new baby as just another mouth to feed.

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2. eat

ADVERB

voraciously
The bears feed voraciously in summer and store energy as fat.
mainly, mostly, predominantly, primarily
exclusively

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PREPOSITION

on
The seals feed mainly on fish and squid.

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3. supply sth

ADVERB

directly
constantly
Receptors constantly feed information into the system.

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PREPOSITION

into
The data is fed directly into a computer.
through
This feeds the paper through to the printer.
to, with
The media were being fed with accusations and lies.

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Feed is used with these nouns as the subject:
baby, calf, goose, shark, tributary

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Feed is used with these nouns as the object:
addiction, animal, appetite, baby, cat, diet, dog, duck, ego, family, fantasy, fire, flame, food, frenzy, imagination, infant, meter, misinformation, myth, pet, pig

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