breastfeed
verb /ˈbrestfiːd/
/ˈbrestfiːd/
[intransitive, transitive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they breastfeed | /ˈbrestfiːd/ /ˈbrestfiːd/ |
| he / she / it breastfeeds | /ˈbrestfiːdz/ /ˈbrestfiːdz/ |
| past simple breastfed | /ˈbrestfed/ /ˈbrestfed/ |
| past participle breastfed | /ˈbrestfed/ /ˈbrestfed/ |
| -ing form breastfeeding | /ˈbrestfiːdɪŋ/ /ˈbrestfiːdɪŋ/ |
- breastfeed (somebody) when a woman breastfeeds, she feeds her baby with milk from her breasts compare bottle-feed, nurseTopics Life stagesc1Oxford Collocations DictionaryBreastfeed is used with these nouns as the object:
- baby
- infant