reprovision

verb

Definition of reprovisionnext
as in to refeed

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reprovision
  1. hand-feed
  2. mess
  3. fill
  4. fatten
  5. wait
  6. overfeed
  7. dine
  8. spoon-feed
Verb
  • But the people who did the actual hands-on work of incubating the eggs and hand-feeding the chicks around the clock were a dedicated team of aviculturists and bird keepers.
    GrrlScientist, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024
  • Animal encounters allow a more up-close look at some of your favorite critters, such as hand-feeding a bison or touching a rhino.
    John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 23 July 2024
Definition of hand-feed
Verb
  • Why risk messing that up because of a tiny screen? About the Author More Stories Coke, Twinkies, Skittles, and … Whole-Grain Bread?
    Nicholas Florko, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2024
  • This feels like a confirmation that Ellie was partly to blame for messing the laundry up before, even if unintentionally.
    Emma Soren, Vulture, 16 Sep. 2024
Definition of mess
Verb
  • Huts fill up fast, so check each property’s for pricing and availability.
    Margaret Jackson, The Denver Post, 13 Nov. 2024
  • The nature is pretty cool My ship’s route from the St. Lawrence to the Atlantic Ocean was a beautiful one, filled with islands ringed in red-earthed cliffs and dark, forested riversides.
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
Definition of fill
Verb
  • Too much filler fattening up this episode, and too little meat on the bone.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024
  • All the vampires begin to feel like failures — and there’s so much negative energy in the air that Colin is fattening up before our very eyes.
    Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 21 Oct. 2024
Definition of fatten
Verb
  • Just up the road, where open land meets the neighborhood’s northern periphery, Jason Swann was also packing up — and waiting.
    Katie Langford, The Denver Post, 10 Nov. 2024
  • Bosa wasn’t fined immediately, as the league waited until after the national election in which Trump defeated Kamala Harris.
    Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 9 Nov. 2024
Definition of wait
Verb
  • The goal is steady feeding without overfeeding, which can damage the tree.
    Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Her methods, the court concluded, included injecting premature infants with air or insulin, overfeeding them, and harming them with medical tools.
    The Week UK, theweek, 28 July 2024
Definition of overfeed
Verb
  • As prices crept up at these restaurants, which are intended to provide an affordable night out for families, consumers instead opted to stay home or dine at restaurants offering value deals.
    Maya Huter, NBC News, 11 Nov. 2024
  • White Castle is offering free combo meals to veterans and active-duty military members who dine at participating restaurants.
    Gege Reed, The Courier-Journal, 6 Nov. 2024
Definition of dine
Verb
  • Parents generally spoon-feed jars of pureed foods for a few months in the first year of life when introducing solids, but pouches marketed to parents of toddlers and older children have prolonged pureed food eating by years.
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Buyers are proactive today, eager to find information through online research themselves rather than waiting for someone to spoon-feed it to them.
    Kelly Hopping, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
Definition of spoon-feed
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