Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To feed (a baby, for example) with a bottle.
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- verb To
feed ababy using abottle , especially using a bottle filled withmilk other than from itsmother
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Examples
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Caretakers sleep on raised cots above slumbering orphans, periodically waking throughout the night to bottle-feed.
Millie Kerr: Saving Endangered Species, One Documentary at a Time Millie Kerr 2011
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Caretakers sleep on raised cots above slumbering orphans, periodically waking throughout the night to bottle-feed.
Millie Kerr: Saving Endangered Species, One Documentary at a Time Millie Kerr 2011
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And an institutionalized mother would have to bottle-feed anyway, so.
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Caretakers sleep on raised cots above slumbering orphans, periodically waking throughout the night to bottle-feed.
Millie Kerr: Saving Endangered Species, One Documentary at a Time Millie Kerr 2011
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Caretakers sleep on raised cots above slumbering orphans, periodically waking throughout the night to bottle-feed.
Millie Kerr: Saving Endangered Species, One Documentary at a Time Millie Kerr 2011
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Kids can watch the gory action in a floodlit barn, bottle-feed the babies and pet the ponies and donkey.
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Caretakers sleep on raised cots above slumbering orphans, periodically waking throughout the night to bottle-feed.
Millie Kerr: Saving Endangered Species, One Documentary at a Time Millie Kerr 2011
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Caretakers sleep on raised cots above slumbering orphans, periodically waking throughout the night to bottle-feed.
Millie Kerr: Saving Endangered Species, One Documentary at a Time Millie Kerr 2011
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• If you want to continue breastfeeding, make sure your baby has more opportunities to breastfeed than bottle-feed.
Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn Penny Simkin 2010
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It may take a while for your baby to learn to bottle-feed or accept a bottle.
Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn Penny Simkin 2010
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