Feed and Operate

Feed

Feed verb - To provide food or meals for.

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Operate and feed are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Operate" instead a verb "Feed".

Nearby Words: feeding, feeder

Operate verb - To control the mechanical operation of.

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Feed and operate are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Feed" instead a verb "Operate".

Either they live entirely underground (the underfae), they participate in an all-fae black market economy, or they have positions that let them operate/feed in the human world.

Source: Masquerade
Countless crocs have died off, and then there're Hy and Hy, the hyena brothers that operate a funeral home... just to get the dead animals that hyenas feed on.

Source: Comic Strip / Pearls Before Swine
But, just in case they decide that someone else can operate her or they know enough to get rid of him, he keeps a datatape of works of fiction, philosophy and religion to feed to Laura.

Source: Logic Bomb

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