force-feedverb [ T ]
uk/ˈfɔːs.fiːd/us/ˈfɔːrs.fiːd/to force a person or animal to eat and drink, often putting food into the stomach through a pipe in the mouth:
Eventually, the hunger strikers were force-fed.
figurative The whole nation was force-fed government propaganda about how well the country was doing.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Giving food to people & animals
- bottle-feed
- breastfeed
- fatted
- fatten sb/sth up
- fed
- feed
- feed sb/sth up
- nourish
- nurse
- nursing
- spoon
- spoon-feed
- tube feeding