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ˌover-ˈfeed, v.
[over- 27.]
1. trans. To feed too much, or to excess.
1609J. Davies in Farr S.P. Jas. I (1848) 183 The London lanes..Did vomit out their undigested dead,..For all these lanes with folke are overfed. 1616Surfl. & Markh. Country Farme 105 The Husbandman is of opinion, that you cannot ouer-feed or make your Swine too fat. 1714Mandeville Fab. Bees (1725) I. 349 If he keeps but one [horse], and overfeeds it to shew his wealth, he is a fool for his pains. 1896Allbutt's Syst. Med. I. 399 It is a common error to over-feed and over-stimulate in this condition.
2. intr. (for refl.) To feed to excess, take too much food.
1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. V. 113 When they [vultures] have over-fed, they are then utterly helpless. 1856Kane Arct. Expl. I. xxix. 399, I have seen pups only two months old risk an indigestion by overfeeding on their twin brethren.
Hence ˈover-ˈfeeding vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1621H. Wotton Let. 26 Nov. in L. P. Smith Life & Lett. Sir H. Wotton (1907) II. 219 As may excuse the English, whom otherwise they think an overfeeding nation. 1836F. Mahony Rel. Father Prout, Apol. Lent (1859) 19 Gibbon..notices this vile propensity to overfeeding. 1881Michell in Macm. Mag. XLV. 41 You must hit off exactly the golden mean between overfeeding and underfeeding. 1902G. B. Shaw Let. 18 Nov. (1972) II. 289 Who is Doctor Buzzi? Is it starvation cure, or overfeeding cure, or water cure, or faith healing, or what? |