Feed and Receive

Feed

Feed verb - To provide food or meals for.

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

Nearby Words: feeding, feeder

Receive verb - To offer entrance (as to a place, school, or privilege) to.

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Feed and receive are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Feed" instead a verb "Receive".

This is why the Jotun Infovore was hoping to receive a nuclear explosion and therefore get a huge blast of fresh entropy to feed on, after having almost completely drained its entire universe.

Source: Literature / The Laundry Series
For a price you can play Kind Hearted Cat Lover and feed strays to receive her blessing.

Source: Tabletop Game / Arkham Horror
Karma Houdini: Lock, Shock and Barrel receive precisely no come-uppance for trying to feed Santa to Oogie Boogie, although admittedly they were serving him out of fear, and did go and get the Mayor to show that Jack was alive.

Source: Western Animation / The Nightmare Before Christmas

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