OVERFEED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does overfeed mean? 

• OVERFEED (verb)
  The verb OVERFEED has 1 sense:

1. feed excessively

  Familiarity information: OVERFEED used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OVERFEED (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they overfeed    ... he / she / it overfeeds   
Past simple: overfed   
Past participle: overfed   
-ing form: overfeeding   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Feed excessively

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Hypernyms (to "overfeed" is one way to...):

feed; give (give food to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

overfeeding (excessive feeding)

 Context examples 

But they hastened it by overfeeding, bringing the day nearer when underfeeding would commence.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

For the rest, his house is full of butlers, footmen, maidservants, and the usual overfed, underworked staff of a large English country house.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)