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BOTTLE-FEED (bottle-fed)
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bottle-feed mean?
• BOTTLE-FEED (verb)
The verb BOTTLE-FEED has 1 sense:
1. give suck to
Familiarity information: BOTTLE-FEED used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Give suck to
Classified under:
Verbs of eating and drinking
Synonyms:
bottle-feed; breastfeed; give suck; lactate; wet-nurse; suckle; nurse; suck
Context examples:
The wetnurse suckled the infant / You cannot nurse your baby in public in some places
Hypernyms (to "bottle-feed" is one way to...):
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s somebody
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