feed

• vt.養う；養う；放牧する；（家族などを）養う；その上に住む
• vi. 食べる；流れ込む
• n. 飼う；飼う；（動物や赤ん坊の）食事

foodの動詞形から。

feed

feed: [OE] Feed was formed from the noun food in prehistoric Germanic times. It comes via Old English fēdan from Germanic *fōthjan, a derivative of *fōthon, the noun from which modern English food is descended. Its use as a noun, for ‘food, fodder’, dates from the 16th century.
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feed (v.)

Old English fedan "nourish, give food to, sustain, foster" (transitive), from Proto-Germanic *fodjan (cognates: Old Saxon fodjan, Old Frisian feda, Dutch voeden, Old High German fuotan, Old Norse foeea, Gothic fodjan "to feed"), from PIE root *pa- "to protect, feed" (see food). Intransitive sense "take food, eat" is from late 14c. Meaning "to supply to as food" is from 1818.

feed (n.)

"action of feeding," 1570s, from feed (v.). Meaning "food for animals" is first attested 1580s. Meaning "a sumptuous meal" is from 1808. Of machinery, "action of or system for providing raw material" from 1892.

1. She is too thin. Feed her up a bit.

彼女は痩せすぎて、彼女を太って育てた。

2.He began to feed in the spaghetti，carefully separating the strands.

彼はパスタを入れ始め、慎重に麺を一筋ずつ分けた。

3.To keep their bees from wandering,beekeepers feed them sugar solutions.

ミツバチの迷子を防ぐために養蜂家が砂糖水を飲ませる。

4.She criticizes me for the way I feed or change him.

彼女は私が授乳しない、おむつを交換しないと批判した。

5.The caterpillars feed on a wide range of trees，shrubs and plants.

毛虫は各種の樹木、低木、植物を餌とする。