feed upon

1. 1.

   be sustained by

   “He fed on the great ideas of her mentor”

   Synonymsfeed on

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Questions about feed upon

What does feed upon mean?

feed upon means "be sustained by".

What is another word for feed upon?

Close synonyms include feed on. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is feed upon a common word?

feed upon is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.