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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
overfeed .
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Examples
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Patting his stomach he said to me, My wife overfeeds me.
Archive 2010-03-01 Fred Kiesche 2010
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Patting his stomach he said to me, My wife overfeeds me.
The Lensman's Children Fred Kiesche 2010
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She overfeeds my Jack Russell Terrier and he has fat pockets.
The crime of overfeeding your dog. Ann Althouse 2007
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Who is going to come out in defense of overfeeding animals in an America currently dealing with how much it overfeeds itself?
Foie Gras 2005
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She loves animals and may have a houseful of strays that she overfeeds and indulges.
HerScopes Charlene Lichtenstein 2000
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She loves animals and may have a houseful of strays that she overfeeds and indulges.
HerScopes Charlene Lichtenstein 2000
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She loves animals and may have a houseful of strays that she overfeeds and indulges.
HerScopes Charlene Lichtenstein 2000
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"If a mouse overfeeds it will gain weight, but it will remain a mouse" he told the cheering crowd.
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So that an individual who habitually overfeeds becomes, after a time, easily tired, physically lazy, weak, perhaps if temperamentally predisposed, nervous and hypochondriacal.
No Animal Food and Nutrition and Diet with Vegetable Recipes Rupert H. Wheldon
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Tappan, a heathenish idea persists that what they need more than hygienics and scientific discipline is some of that old-fashioned love -- love which rocks them when it is not good for them -- love which overfeeds them sometimes so that they yell with old-fashioned colic -- love which ventures a bacilli-laden kiss.
The Danger Mark A. B. [Illustrator] Wenzell 1899
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