Difference between Feed and Eat

What is the difference between Feed and Eat?

Feed as a verb is to give food to eat, nurture while Eat as a verb is to consume (something solid or semi-solid, usually food) by putting it into the mouth and swallowing it.

Feed

Part of speech: verb

Definition: to give food to eat, nurture to eat (usually of animals) To give to a machine to be processed.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Food given to (especially herbivorous) animals. Something supplied continuously; as, a satellite feed. A gathering to eat, especially in quantity Encapsulated online content, such as news or a blog, that you can subscribe to with a feed reader.

Example sentence: Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. When you feed yourself what your body needs when it needs it, that's love. So give your bod some TLC and sit down and enjoy a good, substantial breakfast.

Eat

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To consume (something solid or semi-solid, usually food) by putting it into the mouth and swallowing it.To consume a meal.To be eaten.To destroy, consume, or use upTo cause (someone) to worry.To take the loss in a transaction.To corrode or erode.To damage, destroy, or fail to eject a removable part or an inserted object.To consume money or (other instruments of value, such as a token) deposited or inserted by a user, while failing to either provide the intended product or service, or return the payment.To perform oral sex on someone.

Example sentence: The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

We hope you now know whether to use Feed or Eat in your sentence.

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