spoon-feed

[ spoon-feed, -feed ]

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verb (used with object),spoon-fed, spoon-feed·ing.

to cause to be spoon-fed.

Origin of spoon-feed

First recorded in 1605–15

Words Nearby spoon-feed

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How to use spoon-feed in a sentence

Waiters hoisting massive, gooey hazelnut dacquoise cakes spoon-feed the dancing guests encircling the stage.
A Mad Feast Is the Next 'Sleep No More' | Nina Strochlic | February 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Better let them go to hell in their own way than attempt to spoon-feed them.
Ireland as It Is | Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)

British Dictionary definitions for spoon-feed

spoon-feed

verb-feeds, -feeding or -fed (tr)

to feed with a spoon
to overindulge or spoil

to provide (a person) with ready-made opinions, judgments, etc, depriving him of original thought or action

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