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OVERFEED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does overfeed mean?
• OVERFEED (verb)
The verb OVERFEED has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: OVERFEED used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Conjugation: |
Past simple: overfed
Past participle: overfed
-ing form: overfeeding
Sense 1
Meaning:
Feed excessively
Classified under:
Verbs of eating and drinking
Hypernyms (to "overfeed" is one way to...):
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Derivation:
overfeeding (excessive feeding)
Context examples
But they hastened it by overfeeding, bringing the day nearer when underfeeding would commence.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
For the rest, his house is full of butlers, footmen, maidservants, and the usual overfed, underworked staff of a large English country house.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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