Feeding and ... watering??? 2

[Ladyazh]

I think it is a very complicated, so far at work no one was able to answer it. Best so far was 'quench thirst' - not even funny.
So:
When you have food you can feed someone.
When you have water you can ... someone.

What is the word for food-feeding, water-...?

Thanks,
I need to educate my co-workers and I will mention source.
Promice.

 

[sleipnir214]

You can water animals, as in the western movie where someone has to "water the horses". But the idiom doesn't seem to apply to people.





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[rjoubert]

Quench?

 

[rjoubert]

Well, I guess quench doesn't exactly do it. Quench means to satisfy.

 

[sleipnir214]

hydrate?



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[Ladyazh]

I knew watering will be awkward to use for people but I couldn't find a right word so I used 'watering' like a HAHA to fill the space.
I refuse to believe there is no word to describe quenching your (dependants) thirst process in one word.

 

[Turkbear]

Hi

sleipnir214 seems to have it:
Hydrate:

To supply water to (a person, for example) in order to restore or maintain fluid balance: "Cold water is the fastest and safest way to hydrate an ordinary athlete" Jane E. Brody.






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[Ladyazh]

So I would say 'I'd fed and hydrated you for so many years?'
Doesn't sing to me...

 

[donbott]

I don't like the food/water pairing. One represents a group that provides nourishment, the other is is a single element of the group "drink". Food/feed Drink/quench or rehydrate

DonBott

 

[Stella740pl]

So I would say 'I'd fed and hydrated you for so many years?'
Doesn't sing to me...

Dined and wined? ;-)

 

[IknowMe]

maybe

I've fed you food and water for so many years ...

Can you feed someone water?

Wow, I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time.
I think I've forgotten this before.

 

[Stella740pl]

I've fed you food and water for so many years ...

Can you feed someone water?

Not really.
You can provide it, though.

"I've provided you with food and water for so many years.

 

[Ladyazh]

Dined and wined won't go for a child, may get you in trouble for 'supplying alcohol to minors'

 

[IknowMe]

Perhaps if talking to the 'Swamp Thing'

I've been feeding and watering you for...

Wow, I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time.
I think I've forgotten this before.

 

[Stella740pl]

Dined and wined won't go for a child, may get you in trouble for 'supplying alcohol to minors'
Yes, I got it, that's why I used ;-) after it.

But do you think either
"I'd fed and hydrated you for so many years",
or even
"I've provided you with food and water for so many years"
would go any better?
I mean, do they ever really appreciate your providing food and water? They always know that it was you who have chosen to have them, not the other way around, and then it's your job, not your kind choice, to provide them with all those things for at least 18 years.

 

[Lunatic]

When you have food you can feed someone.
When you have water you can ... someone.

When you have you can hydrate someone. I agree with sleipnir214. Hydrate makes the most sense. Playing sports my parents would often make comments about making sure we stayed hydrated and checking to see if we needed rehydrating.

To be fair though... not all drinks hydrate you. Any drink with enough sugar and/or caffine will actually dehydrate you as it takes my h2o to process those than is provided with the drink they are in.

So I would say 'I'd fed and hydrated you for so many years?'
Doesn't sing to me...

Okay, so maybe 1 word won't work universally...

***

What if 'fed' already incorporates liquids? I know the desire is to find the perfect word for any situation, but several of the definitions of 'feed' reference nurishment/sustenance rather than food directly. What if there isn't a word that fits nicely into the package?

 

[SantaMufasa]

When you have food you can feed someone.
When you have water you can weter someone?

And if a child is involved, it's not "wining and dining," it's "whining and dining," right?




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[Ladyazh]

I think in ancient world there were 2 major things (even farther back into dinosaurs world) to survive they had to feed themselves and ... themselves to not to die.
How come this word got lost?

 

[Stella740pl]

(even farther back into dinosaurs world)
...
How come this word got lost?

Went the way of the dinosaurs?

 

[edfair]

Nourished?

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.