Meaning

4 senses

  1. (archaic, transitive)To supply (an animal or person) with food; to feed.

  2. (archaic, figuratively, transitive)To provide (a person) with intellectual or spiritual nourishment; to enlighten, to feed.

  3. (also, obsolete, reflexive, transitive)To refresh (oneself or someone) through eating and drinking.

  4. (also, figuratively, intransitive, obsolete)Usually followed by on or upon: to take food and drink; to feast, to feed.

Examples

2 sentences

  1. This is quite a repast you've set out for us.

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  2. What's a repast?

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Forms

repasts, repasting, repasted, repasted
Base formrepast · to repast
3rd person singularrepasts
Present participlerepasting
Past simplerepasted
Past participlerepasted

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyrepast
he, she, itrepasts

Past simpleLesson

all personsrepasted

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave repasted
he, she, ithas repasted

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill repast

Word family

1 related words
Derivedrepaster

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
repairA2repairablerepairmanreparationrepaverepayB1repaymentrepeal
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