overfeed
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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overfeeds,
present (3rd person singular)
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overfed,
past participle, past
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overfeeding
present participle
Other Word Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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overfeedsimple
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overfeedssimple
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have overfedperfect
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has overfedperfect
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am overfeedingprogressive
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are overfeedingprogressive
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is overfeedingprogressive
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have been overfeedingperfect progressive
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has been overfeedingperfect progressive
Past
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overfedsimple
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had overfedperfect
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was overfeedingprogressive
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were overfeedingprogressive
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had been overfeedingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of overfeed
Example Sentences
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"We gave her a little bit of food, being careful not to overfeed her," she said.
From BBC ● Apr. 2, 2024
Salmon farmers sometimes inadvertently overfeed their stock, and the uneaten feed promotes the growth of algal blooms that deoxygenate the water as they decompose.
From Scientific American ● May 7, 2022
“You don’t want to overfeed them, because the excess food will just start decomposing and heat up,” said Grossman, “and your worms won’t have any place to go to escape so they’ll die.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2022
Please internet: do not overfeed the ducks or overstimulate the turtles.
From The Verge ● Nov. 1, 2021
If you continue to overfeed granulated sugar, what happens?
From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Thomas Jefferson Ritter
But we also do very nice portion control, so he never overfeeds me.
From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2017
So that an individual who habitually overfeeds becomes, after a time, easily tired, physically lazy, weak, perhaps if temperamentally predisposed, nervous and hypochondriacal.
From No Animal Food and Nutrition and Diet with Vegetable Recipes by Rupert H. Wheldon
One who overfeeds the brain loses in muscular strength.
From Health, Happiness, and Longevity Health without medicine: happiness without money: the result, longevity by Louis Philippe McCarty
He is idle and overfeeds himself: he is punished by gout, indigestion, or apoplexy.
From Thrift by Samuel Smiles
When a man habitually overfeeds it’s good for his stomach to give it a rest.”
From Grit Lawless by F.E. Mills Young
Before, she’d been “hiding behind facades, physically overfed and spiritually undernourished.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026
“Conventional breeds were overfed protein, under ventilated and our recommendations for hatching were not followed,” Gies said.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 26, 2021
It always left us feeling loved and nourished, if slightly overfed.
From Salon ● Mar. 18, 2021
A young veterinary surgeon begins to practice in the remote Yorkshire Dales in 1937, treating abscesses in horses’ hooves and milk fever in cows and prescribing diets for overfed lap dogs.
From New York Times ● Jan. 10, 2021
But portly and overfed though she was from living in the comfort of a zoo, even so she tipped the scales at barely 110 pounds.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
But we were overfeeding her because she has more mouths to feed.”
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 13, 2024
After 18 weeks of overfeeding, it had increased to 8.27, corresponding to being 30% overweight.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2023
He said his only quibble with Hurtado is that he thinks he’s overfeeding the birds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2022
"The method of overfeeding, or making sure that the starter is really fresh and lively, tends to make a sweeter, more flavorsome bread."
From Salon ● Feb. 8, 2022
How could I get Javier to stop overfeeding his frog?
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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