refeed
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.25 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To feed (a person or organism) again, especially after a period of starvation or malnourishment.
Example Sentences
- "The group of volunteers who received a relatively small increment in calories during refeeding (400 calories more than during semistarvation) had no rise in BMR for the first 3 weeks."
- "It's natural if you are coming out of a dieted state to see a rapid surge in appetite as you begin refeeding."
- "The printer was refed with paper."
- "For this reason, you may wish to schedule a refeed on a day when you're not working, so that you're not dealing with the fatigue that can accompany wide blood sugar swings."
- "During the current season, PBS will transmit […] 1,482 hours of program transmission and 2,366 hours of refeeds, station services, and regional split."
- "The network also provides a refeed of programs which schools feel warrant repeating […]"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English feed English refeed From re- + feed.