verb (used with object), spoon-fed, spoon-feed·ing.
to cause to be spoon-fed.
Origin:
1605–15
1605–15
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| spoon-feed | |
| —vb , -feeds, -feeding, -fed | |
| 1. | to feed with a spoon |
| 2. | to overindulge or spoil |
| 3. | to provide (a person) with ready-made opinions, judgments, etc, depriving him of original thought or action |
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