Verb

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(refeed)

Verb

To feed again, especially after a period of starvation or malnourishment.

* {{quote-book, 1997, David M. Garner, chapter=Psychoeducational principles in treatment, Handbook of Treatment for Eating Disorders, 2nd ed., editors=Garner & Garfinkel citation

, passage=The group of volunteers who received a relatively small increment in calories during refeeding (400 calories more than during semistarvation) had no rise in BMR for the first 3 weeks.}}