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Feed vs Nourish vs Pasture vs Graze

Feednourishpasturegraze are comparable when they mean to provide the food that one needs or desires.

Feed is the comprehensive term applicable not only to persons and animals but also to plants and, by extension, to whatever consumes something or requires something external for its sustenance. In American but not in British use feed sometimes takes for its object the thing that is fed.

Nourish implies feeding with food that is essential to growth, health, well-being, or continuing existence. Nourish more often takes as its subject the thing that serves as a sustaining or a building-up food than the person who provides such food.

Pasture is applied chiefly to animals and especially to domestic animals (as cattle, sheep, or horses) fed on grass.

Graze is often preferred specifically to pasture when the emphasis is on the use of growing herbage for food.