noun Download 🔗Share A federal government officer or official, especially FBI, CIA, NSA, ATF, and DEA agents. Examples : "That corrupt fed was caught taking bribes from a mobster!" government police job Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
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verb Download 🔗Share (ditransitive) To give (someone or something) food to eat. Examples : "Feed the dog every evening." food action animal organism Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
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verb Download 🔗Share (of a syntactic rule) To create the syntactic environment in which another syntactic rule is applied; to be applied before another syntactic rule. Examples : "The rule deleting vowels in unstressed syllables fed the rule that combined the remaining consonants into a cluster. " grammar linguistics language Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading