refeed

re- +‎ feed

refeed (third-person singular simple present refeeds, present participle refeeding, simple past and past participle refed)

1. (transitive) To feed (a person or organism) again, especially after a period of starvation or malnourishment.
   • 1997, David M. Garner, “Psychoeducational principles in treatment”, in Garner & Garfinkel, editors, Handbook of Treatment for Eating Disorders, 2nd ed.‎, →ISBN, page 156:

     The group of volunteers who received a relatively small increment in calories during refeeding (400 calories more than during semistarvation) had no rise in BMR for the first 3 weeks.

2. (transitive) To feed (material) back into a machine.

• refeeder
• refeeding syndrome

refeed (plural refeeds)

1. The process of feeding again.

• feeder, ferede, reefed