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refeeding

noun, verb

refeeding is a noun meaning “The process of feeding again, typically after a fast” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-E-F-E-E-D-I-N-G, and it appears about once in every 24 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of refeeding is refeedings.

What does refeeding mean?

noun

  1. 1

    The process of feeding again, typically after a fast.

verb

  1. 1

    present participle and gerund of refeed (a form of refeed)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of refeeding

  • refeedings plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is refeeding?

Refeeding appears about once in every 24 million words in written English, the 148,541st most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Refeeding in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense Translations:

LanguageWords
Spanishrealimentación

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.