FORCE-FEED

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Irregular inflected form: force-fed

Present simple: I / you / we / they force-feed ... he / she / it force-feeds

Past simple: force-fed

Past participle: force-fed

-ing form: force-feeding

Meaning:

Feed someone who will not or cannot eat

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Hypernyms (to "force-feed" is one way to...):

feed; give (give food to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

forced feeding (feeding that consists of the delivery of a nutrient solution (as through a nasal tube) to someone who cannot or will not eat)