bottle-feed
to nurse or feed (an infant or young animal) with milk or other nourishment from a nursing bottle.
to nurture or teach with exaggerated care: We had to bottle-feed the new salesman on how to make door-to-door calls.
to feed an infant or young animal from a nursing bottle.
Origin of bottle-feed
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How to use bottle-feed in a sentence
If it is a bottle-fed baby, any form of flour should be removed from the food and the quantity of the milk reduced.
The Mother and Her Child | William S. SadlerPeptonized milk is safe and can be used in bottle-fed infants after diarrhea.
The Eugenic Marriage, Volume IV. (of IV.) | Grant HagueColic is much more frequent in bottle-fed infants than in those fed on breast milk.
The Eugenic Marriage, Volume IV. (of IV.) | Grant HagueThe bottle-fed start handicapped for life, both in constitution and mentality.
Feminism and Sex-Extinction | Arabella KenealyBut if a child dies early or is bottle-fed, a new conception is likely to occur much sooner than would otherwise be the case.
Applied Eugenics | Paul Popenoe and Roswell Hill Johnson
British Dictionary definitions for bottle-feed
to feed (a baby) with milk from a bottle instead of breast-feeding
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