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English noun: feeding | |||
| 1. | feeding (act) the act of consuming food | ||
| Synonyms | eating | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | consumption, ingestion, intake, uptake | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | banqueting, bite, browse, browsing, chomp, coprophagia, coprophagy, degustation, dining, engorgement, feasting, graze, grazing, lunching, mycophagy, necrophagia, necrophagy, omophagia, relishing, repletion, savoring, savouring, scatophagy, supping, surfeit, tasting | ||
| Part holonym | chew, chewing, manduction, mastication | ||
| 2. | feeding (act) the act of supplying food and nourishment | ||
| Synonyms | alimentation | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | provision, supply, supplying | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | forced feeding, gavage, hyperalimentation, infant feeding, intravenous feeding, IV, lactation, overfeeding, spoonfeeding, suckling, total parenteral nutrition, TPN | ||
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