Overfeed - meaning and definition. What is Overfeed
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What (who) is Overfeed - definition


Overfeed      
·vt & ·vi To feed to excess; to Surfeit.
overfeed      
¦ verb (past and past participle overfed) feed too much.
Overfeeding      
·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Overfeed.
Examples of use of Overfeed
1. "The reasons why people overfeed their dogs are quite complicated," she added.
2. Even today, grandparents who can remember famines, especially in the late 1'50s and early 1'60s, tend to spoil and overfeed their grandchildren.
3. UK women are now officially the fattest in Europe And the number is on the rise as owners overfeed and underexercise their pooches.
4. Bottlefeeding overrides appetite control; it is possible to overfeed a bottlefed baby because the relationship is passive, the milk is easy for the baby to extract (it has to work to get it from the breast) and a parent can become fixated with the baby finishing the bottle.
5. I know, for example, what a dreadful mistake it would be to overfeed a stick insect: it survives by looking like a stick, but fatten it to a meaty twig, or possibly a lollipop, and its hours would be instantly numbered.