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feed off

feed off verb: to consume as part of a diet.

Verb

feed off (third-person singular simple present feeds off, present participle feeding off, simple past and past participle fed off)

  1. (transitive) To consume as part of a diet.
  2. (idiomatic, transitive) To get stimulus from (an external object).
    • It seems like her boss feeds off her unhappiness.

feed off meaning in Tamil

feed off in Tamil

ஊட்டமறல்

Forms of feed off

third-person singular presentfeeds off
present participlefeeding off
past participlefed off
pastfed off

Questions about feed off

What does feed off mean?
Feed off means to consume as part of a diet.
What is feed off in Tamil?
Feed off in Tamil is ஊட்டமறல். See Feed off meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is feed off?
Feed off is a verb.
What is the past tense of feed off?
The past tense of feed off is fed off.

Words near feed off in the dictionary

  1. feed into
  2. feed line
  3. feed lines
  4. feed mill
  5. feed mills
  6. feed off
  7. feed on
  8. feed one's face
  9. feed pump
  10. feed pumps
  11. feed the dragon

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Adapted from Wiktionary: feed off (page history and authors); feed off (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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