fed

Definition

  • noun: an official who works for a branch of the U.S. government
  • noun: a federal agent, officer, or official
  • past tense and past participle of 'feed'
  • usually plural

Examples

  • They 'fed' [='gave, served'] us breakfast before we left. = They 'fed' breakfast to us before we left.

  • The students are being 'spoon-fed' facts and dates without having any opportunity for discussion.

  • We've had one delay after another, and I'm starting to feel/get pretty 'fed up'.

Movie quotes

  • (..) the winds of heaven visit her face too roughly Heaven and earth, must I remember? Why, she would hang on him as if increase of appetite had grown by what it fed on And yet within a month... let me not think on't. Frailty, thy name is woman A little month, or ere those shoes were old (..)
    2015 Hamlet