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Definition of force-feed in English: force-feedverbˌfɔːsˈfiːdˈfɔrsˌfid [with object]1Force (a person or animal) to eat food. Example sentencesExamples - The mother made me literally force-feed him, shoving puréed food into his mouth as he cried piteously in feeble protest.
- There's a whole series of videos chronicling what happens when he force-feeds his students homemade root beer, for god's sake!
- In a protest against the British activities throughout Ireland, Ashe went on a hunger strike in Mountjoy Prison where the authorities attempted to force-feed him.
- Shortly after Dr Ho came Dr John Olney at Washington University, who in 1969 injected and force-fed newborn mice with huge doses of up to four grams/kg bodyweight of MSG.
- But the cold-blooded insects were force-feeding him with the jail's evening meal - yuck!
- Toddlers from the age of 18 months have a real surge of independence, and food can become a battleground, so resist the urge to force-feed your child.
- By comparison, the current hunger strike - in which 12 of the 13 were being force-fed as of Friday - seems almost symbolic.
- Lee also force-fed three patients and shouted and screamed at colleagues and residents of Edenfield Nursing Home between 1985 and 1986.
- ‘For the most part, they put them in isolation and threaten to force-feed people,’ Kateel said.
- He force-fed the baby, struck her on the legs, hands and buttocks and made the 13-month-old stand unsupported for long periods of time to make her walk.
- We ask those who force-feed geese and ducks to stop carrying out this abusive practice.
- Reports indicate he has been beaten and force-fed in custody.
- Independent monitoring groups said he was force-fed unidentified medicines.
- Even if someone force-feeds me Valium, even if I chase it with vodka, even if I'm punched in the face before takeoff, I remain petrified.
- When I went on hunger strike to express my faith, they force-fed me.
- He would keep the upper one open sometimes; talking to me, watching me, force-feeding me bits of food.
- Maybe I should start force-feeding her so she'll get fat and slow and perhaps nicer?
- Unwilling to release all the imprisoned suffragettes, the prison authorities force-fed these women on hunger strike.
- Eventually he learned to eat again, but until that happened I got to experience the wonder and joy of force-feeding a freaked-out cat.
- The country's hospitals are full of women who were force-fed as children.
- 1.1 Impose or force (information or ideology) on someone.
with two objects those teaching our kids should not be force-feeding them political ideas Example sentencesExamples - Such tactics may seem innocuous (even funny) as isolated incidents; the problems are only apparent when ads are multiplied by thousands and constantly force-fed to the public.
- It's probably because we were force-fed all those fairy tales from infancy, where everyone lives happily ever after at the end, but I don't see why the world can't work that way simply because it doesn't at the moment.
- The idea that children in Scottish schools are being force-fed gay propaganda is preposterous.
- But relatively speaking, it's the opposite of propaganda - nobody is being force-fed.
- And it's all because of 10 years of force-feeding the public instead of giving them what they want.
- We don't need to be force-fed the opinions of the writers of these publications.
- Instead of watching a comedy with sinister undertones, we're force-fed a melodrama with no tones at all.
- By saturating the airwaves, candidates and news directors could force-feed information to all but the few Americans who eschewed TV altogether.
- The public have no clue, as the people who create these problems are not on the hierarchic list of news, which we are, force-fed.
- We're just parroting and lampooning pop culture and current events because there's so much stuff that we were force-fed when we grew up.
- Since the right does not require the aid of government to force-feed our views down the throats of an unwilling public, enacting this legislation is the ultimate win-win situation for Republicans and the rest of the right.
- It doesn't bother me - I feel better not force-feeding people something to promote my new CD.
- The film's final half-hour is a curiosity, and not a successful one - a prolonged, needless epilogue which force-feeds us a catharsis that feels as false as it is extraneous to an otherwise fine story.
- This book is a thousand times worse, force-feeding us a tale not only of the author's goodness, but the goodness of his long line of ancestors.
- It is time for a diet of sanity in New Zealand politics, and we will force-feed it to the doctrinaire weirdos over there on the Government benches as soon as they fly the white flag.
- The US government were co-conspirators with the media, who wanted to force-feed us a Joan of Arc.
- The instruction I received as a child force-fed me the notion that the Pope is infallible, yet perhaps John Paul II's legacy will show us the humanity, the fallibility of the human condition.
- The January detox craze simply looks like a more intense outburst of the healthy eating/living obsession that we are force-fed all year round.
- The saddest sight one encounters in a tour of the NMA is a schoolchild sitting at one of these terminals being force-fed a diet of propaganda.
- I wanted them to have the opportunity to choose their own beliefs instead of being force-fed the most popular one.
Definition of force-feed in US English: force-feedverbˈfɔrsˌfidˈfôrsˌfēd [with object]1Force (a person or animal) to eat. Example sentencesExamples - We ask those who force-feed geese and ducks to stop carrying out this abusive practice.
- The mother made me literally force-feed him, shoving puréed food into his mouth as he cried piteously in feeble protest.
- Lee also force-fed three patients and shouted and screamed at colleagues and residents of Edenfield Nursing Home between 1985 and 1986.
- He force-fed the baby, struck her on the legs, hands and buttocks and made the 13-month-old stand unsupported for long periods of time to make her walk.
- Eventually he learned to eat again, but until that happened I got to experience the wonder and joy of force-feeding a freaked-out cat.
- Unwilling to release all the imprisoned suffragettes, the prison authorities force-fed these women on hunger strike.
- He would keep the upper one open sometimes; talking to me, watching me, force-feeding me bits of food.
- ‘For the most part, they put them in isolation and threaten to force-feed people,’ Kateel said.
- When I went on hunger strike to express my faith, they force-fed me.
- Shortly after Dr Ho came Dr John Olney at Washington University, who in 1969 injected and force-fed newborn mice with huge doses of up to four grams/kg bodyweight of MSG.
- The country's hospitals are full of women who were force-fed as children.
- There's a whole series of videos chronicling what happens when he force-feeds his students homemade root beer, for god's sake!
- But the cold-blooded insects were force-feeding him with the jail's evening meal - yuck!
- Maybe I should start force-feeding her so she'll get fat and slow and perhaps nicer?
- Toddlers from the age of 18 months have a real surge of independence, and food can become a battleground, so resist the urge to force-feed your child.
- In a protest against the British activities throughout Ireland, Ashe went on a hunger strike in Mountjoy Prison where the authorities attempted to force-feed him.
- Reports indicate he has been beaten and force-fed in custody.
- Independent monitoring groups said he was force-fed unidentified medicines.
- Even if someone force-feeds me Valium, even if I chase it with vodka, even if I'm punched in the face before takeoff, I remain petrified.
- By comparison, the current hunger strike - in which 12 of the 13 were being force-fed as of Friday - seems almost symbolic.
- 1.1with two objects Impose or force (information or ideology) upon (someone)
no group has the right to force-feed its beliefs on her Example sentencesExamples - It is time for a diet of sanity in New Zealand politics, and we will force-feed it to the doctrinaire weirdos over there on the Government benches as soon as they fly the white flag.
- We don't need to be force-fed the opinions of the writers of these publications.
- Instead of watching a comedy with sinister undertones, we're force-fed a melodrama with no tones at all.
- The US government were co-conspirators with the media, who wanted to force-feed us a Joan of Arc.
- The January detox craze simply looks like a more intense outburst of the healthy eating/living obsession that we are force-fed all year round.
- Since the right does not require the aid of government to force-feed our views down the throats of an unwilling public, enacting this legislation is the ultimate win-win situation for Republicans and the rest of the right.
- But relatively speaking, it's the opposite of propaganda - nobody is being force-fed.
- The saddest sight one encounters in a tour of the NMA is a schoolchild sitting at one of these terminals being force-fed a diet of propaganda.
- This book is a thousand times worse, force-feeding us a tale not only of the author's goodness, but the goodness of his long line of ancestors.
- The idea that children in Scottish schools are being force-fed gay propaganda is preposterous.
- I wanted them to have the opportunity to choose their own beliefs instead of being force-fed the most popular one.
- It's probably because we were force-fed all those fairy tales from infancy, where everyone lives happily ever after at the end, but I don't see why the world can't work that way simply because it doesn't at the moment.
- Such tactics may seem innocuous (even funny) as isolated incidents; the problems are only apparent when ads are multiplied by thousands and constantly force-fed to the public.
- And it's all because of 10 years of force-feeding the public instead of giving them what they want.
- It doesn't bother me - I feel better not force-feeding people something to promote my new CD.
- The public have no clue, as the people who create these problems are not on the hierarchic list of news, which we are, force-fed.
- By saturating the airwaves, candidates and news directors could force-feed information to all but the few Americans who eschewed TV altogether.
- The film's final half-hour is a curiosity, and not a successful one - a prolonged, needless epilogue which force-feeds us a catharsis that feels as false as it is extraneous to an otherwise fine story.
- The instruction I received as a child force-fed me the notion that the Pope is infallible, yet perhaps John Paul II's legacy will show us the humanity, the fallibility of the human condition.
- We're just parroting and lampooning pop culture and current events because there's so much stuff that we were force-fed when we grew up.
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