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 Translation for 'to feed sb sth' from English to French
nourrir qn./qc.to feed sb./sth.
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donner à manger à qn./qc. [animal]to feed sb./sth.
alimenter qn./qc. [personne, animal]to feed sb./sth.
faire manger qn./qc.to feed sb./sth. [children, animals] [also fig.]
repaître qn./qc. [littéraire] [donner à manger, à becquée / béquée]to feed sb./sth. [until full]
2 Words
allaiter qn./qc.to breast-feed sb./sth.
alimenter qn./qc. en qc.to feed sb./sth. with sth.
Partial Matches
méd.
alimenter qn. de force
to feed sb. forcibly
alimenter qn. de forceto force-feed sb.
alimenter qn. par perfusionto drip feed sb.
alimenter qn. artificiellementto feed sb. artificially
alimenter qn. au biberonto bottle-feed sb.
agr.
panser qc. [poules, lapins]
to feed sth.
zool.
se nourrir de qc.
to feed on sth.
se repaître de qc. [animal]to feed on sth.
zool.
s'alimenter de qc. [animal]
to feed on sth.
entretenir qc. [inquiétude, manque d'assurance]to feed sth. [anxiety, insecurity]
agr.
panser qc. [vaches, cochons, chevaux]
to muck out and feed sth.
pol.
faire ingurgiter qc. au public [loc.]
to spoon-feed the public with sth.
qn. a hâte que qn./qc. fasse qc.sb. can't wait for sb./sth. to do sth.
éloigner qn./qc. de qn./qc.to move sb/sth. away from sb./sth.
placer qn. sous la protection de qn./qc.to place sb. under the protection of sb./sth.
habituer qn./qc. à qn./qc.to get sb./sth. used to sb./sth.
assimiler qn./qc. à qn./qc.to bracket sb./sth. with sb./sth. [equate]
tenir qn./qc. hors de portée de qn./qc.to keep sb./sth. away from sb./sth.
éloigner qn./qc. de qn./qc.to keep sb./sth. back from sb./sth.
enlever qn./qc. à qn./qc.to take sb./sth. away from sb./sth.
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Translation for 'to feed sb sth' from English to French

to feed sb./sth.
nourrir qn./qc.

donner à manger à qn./qc. [animal]

alimenter qn./qc. [personne, animal]
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to feed sb./sth. [children, animals] [also fig.]
faire manger qn./qc.
to feed sb./sth. [until full]
repaître qn./qc. [littéraire] [donner à manger, à becquée / béquée]

to breast-feed sb./sth.
allaiter qn./qc.
to feed sb./sth. with sth.
alimenter qn./qc. en qc.

to feed sb. forcibly
alimenter qn. de forceméd.
to force-feed sb.
alimenter qn. de force
to drip feed sb.
alimenter qn. par perfusion
to feed sb. artificially
alimenter qn. artificiellement
to bottle-feed sb.
alimenter qn. au biberon
to feed sth.
panser qc. [poules, lapins]agr.
to feed on sth.
se nourrir de qc.zool.

se repaître de qc. [animal]

s'alimenter de qc. [animal]zool.
to feed sth. [anxiety, insecurity]
entretenir qc. [inquiétude, manque d'assurance]
to muck out and feed sth.
panser qc. [vaches, cochons, chevaux]agr.
to spoon-feed the public with sth.
faire ingurgiter qc. au public [loc.]pol.
sb. can't wait for sb./sth. to do sth.
qn. a hâte que qn./qc. fasse qc.
to move sb/sth. away from sb./sth.
éloigner qn./qc. de qn./qc.
to place sb. under the protection of sb./sth.
placer qn. sous la protection de qn./qc.
to get sb./sth. used to sb./sth.
habituer qn./qc. à qn./qc.
to bracket sb./sth. with sb./sth. [equate]
assimiler qn./qc. à qn./qc.
to keep sb./sth. away from sb./sth.
tenir qn./qc. hors de portée de qn./qc.
to keep sb./sth. back from sb./sth.
éloigner qn./qc. de qn./qc.
to take sb./sth. away from sb./sth.
enlever qn./qc. à qn./qc.
Usage Examples English
  • have somewhat longer beaks than the ground finches that serve the dual purpose of allowing them to feed on Opuntia cactus nectar and pollen while these plants are flowering, but on seeds during the rest of the year.
  • Other methods include adding antibiotics to feed, adding chemicals into water for treatment baths and biological control, such as using cleaner wrasse to remove lice from farmed salmon.
  • Soldiers are often used as supplemental manpower in the country's agricultural fields picking crops, though much of the harvested food is used to feed the military rather than the general population.
  • Orcas and bottlenose dolphins have also been known to drive their prey onto a beach to feed on it, a behaviour known as beach or strand feeding.
  • A unique feature is their ability to feed by suction, depressing either the left side of their lower jaw or the right.

  • Subsequent singles were "Peace" and the double A-side "Fragile Tension / Hole to Feed".
  • The neck's range of movement would have also allowed the head to feed at the level of the feet.
  • An embryo of the basal sauropodomorph "Massospondylus" was found without teeth, indicating that some parental care was required to feed the young dinosaurs.
  • 2 submarine cable systems transmitting electric power at 400 kV bridge the Dardanelles to feed west and east of Istanbul.
  • Anthozoan larvae either have large yolks or are capable of feeding on plankton, and some already have endosymbiotic algae that help to feed them.

  • While amphibians continued to feed on fish and later insects, reptiles began exploring two new food types: tetrapods (carnivory) and then plants (herbivory).
  • The mothers return once a day to feed their calves with milk.
  • These were brought home by fishermen to feed the family.
  • but placing additional stress on the video amplifier used to feed video into the electron gun's cathodes, since the cutoff voltage becomes higher.
  • They are presumed to feed on fungi, nest materials or pollen.

  • Homes and barns were completely covered, compelling farmers to construct fragile tunnels in order to feed their stock.
  • In females, it serves as the mammary gland, which produces and secretes milk to feed infants.
  • These are commonly seen at external filming locations to feed the cast and crew, and at other large events to feed staff.
  • Classics scholar Timothy Barnes recounts ancient allegations against Athanasius: from defiling an altar, to selling Church grain that had been meant to feed the poor for his own personal gain, and even violence and murder to suppress dissent.
  • Big Mama had Michelangelo and Meat Sweats compete to feed each of its heads in order to satisfy the amphisbaena.

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