Feed
Feed verb - To take a meal.
Usage example: an all-you-can-eat buffet where families can feed heartily and fairly inexpensively
Pick
Pick verb - To catch or collect (a crop or natural resource) for human use.
How words are described
| good | good feed | good pick |
| regular | regular feed | regular pick |
| original | original feed | original pick |
| free | free feed | free pick |
| Other adjectives: single, large, worst. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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In many cases, characters that are not too familiar with animals or the wilderness will attempt to pick up, feed, play with or even adopt the cub.
Source: Cub Cues Protective Parent - Soldiers can see a video feed from the drone, and can pick a target seen in the feed for the drone to go kamikaze against.
Source: Drone Deployer - Gwaine does pick up on it after her first betrayal, though, and uses her to feed Morgana false information.
Source: Honey Trap
Cite this Source
Pick and Feed. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/feed/pick
Feed & Pick. N.p., 2016. Web. 16 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/feed/pick>.
Pick or Feed. 2016. Accessed August 16, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/feed/pick.
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