fed

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verb
  1. simple past tense and past participle of feed.

Idioms about fed

  1. fed up, impatient; disgusted; bored: They were fed up with the same old routine.

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Other definitions for fed (2 of 5)

fed2
[ fed ]

noun
  1. (sometimes initial capital letter)Slang. a federal official or law-enforcement officer.

Origin of fed

2
First recorded in 1915–20; by shortening

Other definitions for Fed (3 of 5)

Fed
[ fed ]

noun
  1. the Fed, Informal. the Federal Reserve System.

  2. the Federal Reserve Board.

Other definitions for fed. (4 of 5)

fed.

abbreviation
  1. federal.

  2. federated.

  1. federation.

Other definitions for Fed. (5 of 5)

Fed.

abbreviation
  1. Federal.

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How to use fed in a sentence

  • At last Aristide fed him desperately, dandled him eventually to sleep, and returned to an excited pillow.

  • I have fed and slept at inns, living on the worst of fares and sleeping on the hardest, and hardly the cleanest, of beds.

    St. Martin's Summer | Rafael Sabatini
  • Half-fed men would dig for diamonds, and men sheltered by a crazy roof erect the marble walls of palaces.

  • All were badly and insufficiently fed, as much from disorganized commissariat arrangements as from actual want of supplies.

    The Philippine Islands | John Foreman
  • So Hettie put the chicken in a cage, with some wool to cover it, and fed it several times every day, till it came to know her.

British Dictionary definitions for fed (1 of 4)

fed1

/ (fɛd) /


verb
  1. the past tense and past participle of feed

  2. fed to death, fed to the teeth, fed up to the teeth, fed to the back teeth or fed up to the back teeth informal bored or annoyed

British Dictionary definitions for fed (2 of 4)

fed2

/ (fɛd) /


noun
  1. US slang an agent of the FBI

British Dictionary definitions for Fed (3 of 4)

Fed

/ (fɛd) /


noun
  1. the Fed US informal the Federal Reserve Bank or Federal Reserve Board

British Dictionary definitions for Fed. (4 of 4)

Fed.

abbreviation for
  1. Federal

  2. Federation

  1. Federated

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