breast-fed
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2.1
- adjective
- /ˈbrɛstˌfɛd/
:
lactante
- She favors natural childbirth and wants her baby to be "breast-fed, not bottle-fed" (210-11).
- breast-fed infants
It goes from like breast fed to bottle fed to being fed by a woman, like kind of vaguely covered in plastic, you know?
- It goes from like breast fed to bottle fed to being fed by a woman, like kind of vaguely covered in plastic, you know?
Examples
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Farther up the mountain, Joanna spotted a young woman sitting on a log bench at a lookout, breast-feeding a child who must have been four or five years old.
Fiction book (2002) -
Of the total eight deaths from epidemic diarrhea among breast-fed infants, none occurred after the sixth month of life.
Academic text (2013) -
She breast-fed Michael till he was three years old.
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You wonder if you would have had a better chance at being slimmer if you had breast-fed the first child.
Fiction book (1996) -
Many women around the world breast-feed their children longer than what many Westerners think is "normal."
Blog text (30) -
When the baby grew restless, Pine breast-fed her while continuing her lecture in front of 40 students.
Blog text (11) -
Because human breast milk normally contains DHA, its consumption is not a concern for breast-fed babies.
Academic text (2006) -
Adrienne Pine, a professor at American University, recently breast-fed her infant daughter during the first lecture of a "Sex, Gender and Culture" class.
Blog text (32) -
"But now, you know, Mudear always bragged on the fact that she breast-fed all her children," Betty said with a sly smile.
Fiction book (1993) -
Many working women find it challenging to breast-feed their babies after returning to work.
Synonyms
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A baby or young animal that is not yet eating food other than its mother's milk
A baby or young animal that is fed milk by its mother
A baby fed breast milk by its mother
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
breast-fed = breastfeed (transparent) = breast + feed + ed
Formed by adding the past-participial/adjectival '-ed' to the verb 'breastfeed', so the relation to 'breast' + 'feed' is directly inferable.
Etymology
Breast-fed is made of breast, meaning the mother's chest that makes milk, and fed, the past of 'feed' meaning 'to give food'. That's why it means a baby was 'given milk from the mother's breast'.