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Is feed a Scrabble word?

Yes, feed is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 8 points in Scrabble.

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  • Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
  • Wordle No
  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of feed?

Definition

verb (English)

1. (transitive) To give (someone or something) food to eat.Examples: "Feed the dog every evening."; "If thine enemy hunger, feed him."Synonyms: nourishtransitive

2. (intransitive) To eat (usually of animals).Examples: "Spiders feed on gnats and flies."; "“The treasurer was of the same opinion: he showed to what straits his majesty’s revenue was reduced, by the charge of maintaining you, which would soon grow insupportable; that the secretary’s expedient of putting out your eyes, was so far from being a remedy against this evil, that it would probably increase it, as is manifest from the common practice of blinding some kind of fowls, after which they fed the faster, and grew sooner fat;[...]"; "But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶[…]The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge,[…]."intransitive

3. (ditransitive) To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food.Examples: "Don't feed him too much; he's still a baby."; "Feed the fish to the dolphins."; "DR SIMEON: I said I'd feed you. I didn't say who to."ditransitive

4. (transitive) To give to a machine to be processed.Examples: "Feed the paper gently into the document shredder."transitive

5. (transitive) To supply (a machine) with something to be processed.Examples: "We got interesting results after feeding the computer with the new data."transitive

6. (transitive, figurative) To satisfy, gratify, or minister to (a sense, taste, desire, etc.).Examples: "If I can catch him once upon the hip, / I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him."; "feeding him with the hope of liberty"figurativelytransitive

noun (English)

1. (uncountable) Food given to (especially herbivorous) non-human animals.Examples: "They sell feed, riding helmets, and everything else for horses."uncountable

2. (UK, Australia, New Zealand, colloquial, countable) A meal.Examples: "184?, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor One proposed going to Hungerford-market to do a feed on decayed shrimps or other offal laying about the market; another proposed going to Covent-garden to do a 'tightener' of rotten oranges, to which I was humorously invited; […]"; ""There won't be any more blessed concerts for a million years or so; there won't be any Royal Academy of Arts, and no nice little feeds at restaurants.""AustraliaNew-ZealandUKcolloquialcountable

3. (countable) A gathering to eat, especially in large quantities.Examples: "They held a crab feed on the beach."Synonyms: feastcountable

4. (Internet) online content presented sequentially:Examples: "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."Internetcountableuncountable

5. (Internet) online content presented sequentially:Examples: "Refresh the top of your various “feeds” — the running column of content on some versions of Facebook, Twitter and Instagram — and you will see the latest news at the top. The further back you scroll, the older the material gets."; "I use Native, that’s what other Native people on Facebook use. I have 660 friends. Tons of Native friends in my feed. Most of my friends, though, are people I don’t know, who’d happily friended me upon request."; "Despite spending years studying these toxic dynamics and the better part of a month watching them up close in strangers’ feeds, I was still, like so many, surprised to see it all reflected at the ballot box. We shouldn’t have been surprised; our divisions have been in front of our faces and inside our feeds this whole time."Internetcountableoftenuncountable

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "feed"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "feed"?

Scrabble
8 points
F4
E1
E1
D2
Words With Friends
8 points
F4
E1
E1
D2

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