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v. work for or be a servant to; "May I serve you?"; "She attends the old lady in the wheelchair"; "Can you wait on our table, please?"; "Is a salesperson assisting you?"; "The minister served the King for many years"

stoke

v. stir up or tend; of a fire

board

v. provide food and lodging (for); "The old lady is boarding three men"

nourish, nurture, sustain

v. provide with nourishment; "We sustained ourselves on bread and water"; "This kind of food is not nourishing for young children"

sustain, keep, maintain

v. supply with necessities and support; "She alone sustained her family"; "The money will sustain our good cause"; "There's little to earn and many to keep"

support, back up

v. give moral or psychological support, aid, or courage to; "She supported him during the illness"; "Her children always backed her up"

feed, give

v. give food to; "Feed the starving children in India"; "don't give the child this tough meat"

feed on, feed upon

v. be sustained by; "He fed on the great ideas of her mentor"

devour, down, consume, go through

v. eat immoderately; "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal"

crop, browse, graze, range, pasture

v. feed as in a meadow or pasture; "the herd was grazing"

devour, down, consume, go through

v. eat immoderately; "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal"

devour, guttle, raven, pig

v. eat greedily; "he devoured three sandwiches"

keep, maintain

v. maintain for use and service; "I keep a car in the countryside"; "She keeps an apartment in Paris for her shopping trips"

support

v. support materially or financially; "he does not support his natural children"; "The scholarship supported me when I was in college"

feed on, feed upon

v. be sustained by; "He fed on the great ideas of her mentor"

feed, feast

v. gratify; "feed one's eyes on a gorgeous view"

forage

v. wander and feed; "The animals forage in the woods"

leave, allow for, allow, provide

v. make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain; "This leaves no room for improvement"; "The evidence allows only one conclusion"; "allow for mistakes"; "leave lots of time for the trip"; "This procedure provides for lots of leeway"

prey on, profit from, feed off

v. profit from

starve

v. deprive of a necessity and cause suffering; "he is starving her of love"; "The engine was starved of fuel"

deprive

v. keep from having, keeping, or obtaining

quench

v. cool (hot metal) by plunging into cold water or other liquid; "quench steel"

quench

v. cool (hot metal) by plunging into cold water or other liquid; "quench steel"

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