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Phr V feed up feeds, feeding, fed feed up sb/sth or feed sb/sth up British & Australian to give a lot of food to a person or animal, especially when they are ill, in order to make them strong and healthyKate's very thin at the moment -- we'll have to feed her up a bit.
phrasefeed up1. feed sb up BrE to give someone a lot of food, especially to make them healthy and not too thin: When I was young, my grandmother was always trying to feed me up with sweets and biscuits. A lot of models these days look like they need feeding up.2. be fed up informal to be bored, annoyed, or unhappy, especially because a situation that you do not like has continued for too long: You look fed up. What's the matter?+ with People are fed up with airport delays. She got fed up with being treated like some kind of servant.■ SIMILAR TO: be hacked off informal
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