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bottle feed

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bot⋅tle-feed

[bot-l-feed] verb, -fed, -feed⋅ing.
–verb (used with object)
1. to nurse or feed (an infant or young animal) with milk or other nourishment from a nursing bottle.
2. to nurture or teach with exaggerated care: We had to bottle-feed the new salesman on how to make door-to-door calls.
–verb (used without object)
3. to feed an infant or young animal from a nursing bottle.

Origin:
1860–65
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Main Entry: bot·tle–feed
Pronunciation: 'bät-&l-"fEd
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Forms:-fed;-feed·ing
: to feed (an infant) from a bottle rather than by breast-feeding
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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