Feed vs Devour - What's the difference?
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(lb) To give (someone or something) food to eat.
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*Bible, (w) xii.20:
*:If thine enemy hunger, feed him.
(lb) To eat (usually of animals).
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*:But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶.
(lb) To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food.
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*2012 December 25 (airdate), (Steven Moffat), The Snowmen'' (''Doctor Who )
*:DR SIMEON: I said I'd feed you. I didn't say who to.
(lb) To give to a machine to be processed.
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(lb) To satisfy, gratify, or minister to (a sense, taste, desire, etc.).
*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
*(Richard Knolles) (1545-1610)
*:feeding him with the hope of liberty
To supply with something.
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To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle.
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*Mortimer
*:Once in three years feed your mowing lands.
To pass to.
*{{quote-news, year=2010, date=December 28, author=Kevin Darlin, work=BBC
, title= To create the environment where another phonological rule can apply.
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(uncountable) Food given to (especially herbivorous) animals.
Something supplied continuously.
The part of a machine that supplies the material to be operated upon.
(countable) A gathering to eat, especially in quantity
(Internet) Encapsulated online content, such as news or a blog, that can be subscribed to.
To eat quickly, greedily, hungrily, or ravenously.
To rapidly destroy, engulf, or lay waste.
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*Bible, (w) i. 20
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, chapter=1, title= To take in avidly with the intellect.
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*:Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy […] distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its savour.
To absorb or engross the mind fully, especially in a destructive manner.
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As verbs the difference between feed and devour
is that feed is to give (someone or something) food to eat while devour is to eat quickly, greedily, hungrily, or ravenously.As a noun feed
is food given to (especially herbivorous) animals.feed
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) feden, from (etyl) through Indo-European. More at (l), (l).Verb
West Brom 1-3 Blackburn, passage=Morrison then played a pivotal role in West Brom's equaliser, powering through the middle and feeding Tchoyi, whose low, teasing right-wing cross was poked in by Thomas at the far post}}
Noun
- They sell feed , riding helmets, and everything else for horses.
- a satellite feed
- the paper feed of a printer
- They held a crab feed on the beach.
- I've subscribed to the feeds of my favourite blogs, so I can find out when new posts are added without having to visit those sites.
Derived terms
* atom feed * data feed * live Internet feed * Internet feed * RSS feed, syndication feed * Web feedDerived terms
* bite the hand that feeds one * chicken feed * feed dog * feeding frenzy * feed one's face * feedstock * * misfeed * off one's feed * overfeed * underfeedEtymology 2
+ -(e)ddevour
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Verb
(en verb)- If ye refuseye shall be devoured with the sword.
Internal Combustion, passage=Blast after blast, fiery outbreak after fiery outbreak, like a flaming barrage from within,