breast-feed
verb (used with object)
to nurse (a baby) at the breast; suckle.
breast-fed
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a word derived from
breast-feed.
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a word form of
breast-feed.
breast-feedverb (used with object)to nurse (a baby) at the breast; suckle.
Example Sentences
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Elsewhere in the Instagram Q&A, Paltrow touched on breast-feeding when a fan asked if she had breast-fed her children, Apple Martin, 19, and Moses Martin, 17.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2023
Mr Mwiti says he had heard accounts of how his infant son was breast-fed only once.
From BBC ● May 1, 2023
“We have stopped all the medicines that we were giving Aya and now she is being breast-fed when she needs,” Maarouf said by telephone from Afrin.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 13, 2023
Fewer than half the babies born in the United States were exclusively breast-fed through their first three months, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's 2020 Breastfeeding Report Card.
From Reuters ● Jun. 1, 2022
This means that the breast-fed human infant is receiving small, but regular additions to the load of toxic chemicals building up in his body.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
