spoon-feed
verb (used with object)
to cause to be spoon-fed.
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
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Every evening for the past six years, Ruth has spoon-fed her husband Edward, who has Alzheimer's disease.
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