overfeed
verb (used with or without object)
to feed or eat to excess.
overfeeds
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present tense formof overfeed (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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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
When a man habitually overfeeds it’s good for his stomach to give it a rest.”
From Grit Lawless by F.E. Mills Young
He is idle and overfeeds himself: he is punished by gout, indigestion, or apoplexy.
From Thrift by Samuel Smiles
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
