Feed
Feed verb - To put (something) into the possession of someone for use or consumption.
Usage example: all week long colleagues have been feeding me ideas for a magazine article
Hold
Hold verb - To have or keep in one's hands.
How words are described
| good | good feed | good hold |
| short | short feed | short hold |
| original | original feed | original hold |
| true | true feed | true hold |
| Other adjectives: single, poor, entire, large, main, former. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- Hold Your Hippogriffs: A variation of "Might as well be hanged for horse theft as for stealing chicken feed".
- The few kinetic weapons are no less effective, however, and have the advantage of not having to feed off of the ship's reactor, which can be overwhelmed by firing energy weapons too fast, so the only limiting factor is how many boxes of ammo one has shoved in the cargo hold.
Source: We Will Use Lasers in the Future
Cite this Source
Hold and Feed. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/feed/hold
Feed & Hold. N.p., 2016. Web. 22 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/feed/hold>.
Hold or Feed. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/feed/hold.
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