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OVERFEED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does overfeed mean? 

OVERFEED (verb)
  The verb OVERFEED has 1 sense:

1. feed excessivelyplay

  Familiarity information: OVERFEED used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


OVERFEED (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they overfeed  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it overfeeds  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: overfed  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: overfed  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: overfeeding  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Feed excessively

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Hypernyms (to "overfeed" is one way to...):

feed; give (give food 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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