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force-feed

  [fawrs-feed, fohrs-]
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–verb (used with object), -fed, -feed⋅ing.
1. to compel to take food, esp. by means of a tube inserted into the throat: They force-fed the prisoners in the hunger strike.
2. to compel to absorb or assimilate: The recruits were force-fed a military attitude.
Origin:
1905–10
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