Feed
Feed verb - To provide food or meals for.
Put
Put verb - To arrange something in a certain spot or position.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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In North By Northwest, bad guys force-feed Cary Grant's character a quart of whiskey and put him behind the wheel of a car, sending him on his way.
Source: Drunk Driver - So, in the later years at least, C4 put the live feed on between midnight and 6AM.
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In this culture white elephants were sacred, so the recipient couldn't put it to work but still had to feed it, creating a drain on his resources.
Source: Unwanted Gift Plot
Cite this Source
Put and Feed. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/feed/put
Feed & Put. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/feed/put>.
Put or Feed. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/feed/put.
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