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overfeed

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive & intransitive verb To feed or eat too often or too much.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To feed to excess.
  • In therapeutics, to feed in excess of appetite, and in large amount.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • verb To feed to excess; to surfeit.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive To feed a person or animal too much.
  • verb intransitive To eat more than is necessary.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb feed excessively

Etymologies

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over- +‎ feed

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synonyms (1)

Words with the same meaning

  1. surfeit

hypernyms (2)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. feed
  2. give

forms (3)

Forms

  1. overfed
  2. overfeeding
  3. overfeeds

rhymes (78)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Aristide
  2. Bede
  3. Ede
  4. Gilead
  5. Mead
  6. Meade
  7. Read
  8. Reed
  9. Reid
  10. Sinead
  11. Snead
  12. Speed
  13. Swede
  14. Tweed
  15. accede
  16. agreed
  17. bead
  18. bleed
  19. brede
  20. breed
  21. cede
  22. concede
  23. creed
  24. decreed
  25. dede
  26. deed
  27. degreed
  28. disagreed
  29. exceed
  30. fede
  31. feed
  32. freed
  33. fried
  34. grede
  35. greed
  36. guaranteed
  37. heed
  38. impede
  39. indeed
  40. intercede
  41. keyed
  42. knead
  43. kneed
  44. lead
  45. leed
  46. lipide
  47. mead
  48. misdeed
  49. mislead
  50. misread
  51. need
  52. peed
  53. plead
  54. precede
  55. preceed
  56. proceed
  57. read
  58. recede
  59. reed
  60. reread
  61. reseed
  62. riede
  63. screed
  64. secede
  65. seed
  66. shaheed
  67. skied
  68. sneed
  69. speed
  70. stampede
  71. steed
  72. succeed
  73. supersede
  74. swede
  75. teed
  76. thede
  77. tweed
  78. weed

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