overfeed

[ oh-ver-feed ]

/ ˌoʊ vərˈfid /

to feed or eat to excess.

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First recorded in 1600–10; over- + feed

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Do not overfeed the gray; Give a plenty to the bay; And be careful with your lantern when you go among the hay.
Farm Ballads|Will Carleton
Some of the Guardians privately hinted to the master that it was unnecessary to overfeed the infant.
Ginx's Baby|Edward Jenkins
The London public, he said, overfeed themselves with music; they cannot healthily digest the lengthy menu provided for them.
Wagner as I Knew Him|Ferdinand Christian Wilhelm Praeger
Manure well; but remember that it is possible to overfeed the soil of a garden, so as to render it unproductive.
Soil Culture|J. H. Walden

But to overfeed a passage hawk before putting her up to wait on, is to court the loss of her.
The Art and Practice of Hawking|Edward B. Michell

also over-feed, c.1600, from over- + feed (v.). Related: overfed; overfeeding.

[ ō′vər-fēd′ ]

To feed or eat too often or too much.