feed back

verb

To provide informational feedback to.

“His employees fed back a lot more than he wanted.”

Similar
resubmit
Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

verbfeed back (third-person singular simple present feeds back, present participle feeding back, simple past and past participle fed back)

present singular third person feeds back · participle present feeding back · participle past fed back · past fed back · alternative feedback

  1. transitiveTo provide informational feedback to.

    His employees fed back a lot more than he wanted.

  2. transitiveTo convey by means of specialized communications channel.

    Customers fed back their complaints and some praise.

  3. To return electrical current generated by some means (such as solar panels, regenerative braking) to the power grid.

    Regenerative braking is retained. Like rheostatic braking, this uses the traction motors to provide a braking effort, but the current developed is fed back into the overhead catenary rather than dissipated through resistance banks.

    2023 July 26, David Clough, “Technology progression defines Class 93”, in RAIL, number 988, page 54

Synonyms & antonyms

verbsubmit (information) again to a program or automatic system

Similar
resubmit
Broader
renderreturn
Also see
resubmit

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Cite this entry
APA

feed back. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/feed%20back

MLA

“feed back.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/feed%20back. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “feed back,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/feed%20back.

Source: feed back on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.