to force-feed
10
6.5
- phrasal verb
- /ˈfɔrsˌfid/
- Offensive
:
alimentar a la fuerza
- They're force-feeding him to keep him alive.
- force-feeding geese
- force-feed him salt
- force-fed by the prison
My dad used to force feed me oats, like the Scottish oats.
- My dad used to force feed me oats, like the Scottish oats.
- They take them and they nail both of their feet to the floor and they force feed them.
- In this one experiment that worked, the investigators took a bizarre mouse model where they force fed it an enormously high fat diet.
Examples
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She needs to be watched constantly, force-fed if need be, and bathed.
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Doctors had to force-feed the patient after his surgery because he couldn't eat on his own.
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We'll have to force-feed him.
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Nobody is force-feeding the guy.
Blog text (29) -
Then, when they went on a hunger strike to protest this treatment, they were force-fed.
Blog text (27) -
The nurses have to clean up after my messes, then force-feed me so I'll do it all over again.
Fiction book (1995) -
The suffragettes died, were imprisoned, and force-fed in prisons to win the right to vote.
Blog text (8) -
They force-feed the goose so its liver distends.
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We can't force-feed him.
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They force-feed the ducks 7 pounds of food a day through a plastic tube they drill into their throats.
How Coercive
- Offensive
91
6.4
- Offensive
10
6.5
∞
2.3
149
4.2
472
2.7
∞
2.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Force-feed is made of two simple words: force meaning 'power' or 'push' and feed meaning 'give food'. So to force-feed someone is to make them eat by using force, even when they do not want to or cannot eat.