spoon-feed

[ spoon-feed, -feed ]
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verb (used with object),spoon-fed, spoon-feed·ing.
  1. to cause to be spoon-fed.

Origin of spoon-feed

1
First recorded in 1605–15

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British Dictionary definitions for spoon-feed

spoon-feed

verb-feeds, -feeding or -fed (tr)
  1. to feed with a spoon

  2. to overindulge or spoil

  1. to provide (a person) with ready-made opinions, judgments, etc, depriving him of original thought or action

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