FEED UPON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does feed upon mean? 

• FEED UPON (verb)
  The verb FEED UPON has 1 sense:

1. be sustained by

  Familiarity information: FEED UPON used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FEED UPON (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be sustained by

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Synonyms:

feed on; feed upon

Context example:

He fed on the great ideas of her mentor

Hypernyms (to "feed upon" is one way to...):

conform to; fill; fit; fulfil; fulfill; meet; satisfy (fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condtion ro restriction)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

Is love so gross a thing that it must feed upon publication and public notice?

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

For half a day he lay motionless, fighting off unconsciousness and waiting for the thing that was to feed upon him and upon which he wished to feed.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

However, as Mrs. Chillip says, sir, they undergo a continual punishment; for they are turned inward, to feed upon their own hearts, and their own hearts are very bad feeding.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)