Verb

(referr)

To direct the attention of.

The shop assistant referred me to the help desk on ground floor.

To submit to (another person or group) for consideration; to send or direct elsewhere.

He referred the matter to the principal.

to refer a patient to a psychiatrist

To place in or under by a mental or rational process; to assign to, as a class, a cause, source, a motive, reason, or ground of explanation.

He referred the phenomena to electrical disturbances.

(rfex) To allude to, make a reference or allusion to.

# (grammar) to be referential to another element in a sentence

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Verb

(head)

(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.}}