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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | food |
| Synonyms: | animal food, barley, corn, fodder, forage, grain, grass, grub, hay, meal, pasturage, provender, provisions, silage, straw, vittles |
| Main Entry: | board |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | provide food and sleeping quarters |
| Synonyms: | accommodate, bed, canton, care for, feed, harbor, house, let crash, lodge, put up, quarter, room |
| Notes: | a board is a committee having supervisory powers, a plank, or food served to lodgers - while bored is tired of the world a plank is thicker than a board |
| Antonyms: | turn out |
| Main Entry: | bread |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | daily food |
| Synonyms: | aliment, bed and board, comestibles, diet, fare, feed, grub, necessities, nourishment, nurture, nutriment, provender, provisions, shingle, staff of life, subsistence, sustenance, viands, victuals |
| Main Entry: | bring up |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | raise youngster |
| Synonyms: | breed, cultivate, develop, discipline, educate, feed, form, foster, nourish, nurture, provide for, rear, school, support, teach, train |
| Main Entry: | browse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | look around; look through |
| Synonyms: | check over, dip into, examine cursorily, feed, flip through, get the cream, give the once over, glance at, graze, hit the high spots, inspect loosely, leaf through, nibble*, once over lightly, pass an eye over, peruse, read, read here and there, riff through, riffle through, run through, scan, skim, skip through, survey, thumb through wander |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | consume |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | eat, drink |
| Synonyms: | absorb, bolt, chow down, devour, down, eat up, feed, gobble, gorge, gulp, guzzle, hoover, ingest, ingurgitate, inhale, meal, mow, nibble, partake, polish off, punish, put away, put down*, scarf, snack, stuff one's face, swallow, swill, take, toss down, wolf* |
| Antonyms: | fast, starve |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | deliver |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | discharge, give forth |
| Synonyms: | accouch, bear, birth, born, dispense, feed, find, hand, hand over, produce, provide, release, supply, turn over |
| Main Entry: | eat |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | consume food |
| Synonyms: | absorb, attack, banquet, bite, bolt*, break bread, breakfast, chew, chow down, cram, devour, digest, dine, dispatch, dispose of, fall to, feast upon, feed, gobble up, gorge, gormandize, graze*, have a bite, have a meal, have for, ingest, inhale*, lunch, make pig of oneself, masticate, munch, nibble, nosh, partake of, peck at, pick, pig out, polish off, pork out, put away, ruminate, scarf, scoff, snack, sup, swallow, take food, take in, take nourishment, wolf |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | entertain |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | accommodate visitors |
| Synonyms: | admit, be host, board, chaperone, dine, do the honors, feed, foster, give a party, harbor, have a do, have a get-together, have company, have guests, have visitors, house, invite, lodge, nourish, pick up the check, pop for, put up, quarter, receive, recreate, regale, room, show hospitality, spring for, throw a party, treat, welcome, wine and dine |
| Antonyms: | refuse, reject, turn away |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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