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force-feed Definition

force·-feed (fôrsfēd′)

transitive verb -·fed′, -·feed′·ing

to feed by force, esp. by means of a tube passing down the throat to the stomach

force-feed Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • prisoner: These included accounts of force-feeding of prisoners who had been forcibly restrained.

Object

  • diet: I'm just sick of getting the usual, force-fed diet of Detroit and Colorado, for that matter.
  • woman: Unwilling to release all the imprisoned suffragettes, the prison authorities force-fed these women on hunger strike.
  • prisoner: Strong paternalism can be seen in cases such as forcibly administering blood transfusions to Jehovah's Witnesses or force-feeding prisoners on hunger strike.
  • duck: Farmers are shown cultivating rice and wheat, rearing cattle, force-feeding ducks and growing mulberry leaves to feed the silk worms.
  • packet: A falsetto, I must add, with the clarity of a kitten that had just been force-fed ten packets of Hall's Soothers.

Modifying Another Word

  • then: The lost ideals, the dreams and visions were replaced with technology and then force-fed to us the siblings of the summer of love.
  • cruelly: This so-called delicacy is produced from the diseased swollen liver of ducks and geese which have been cruelly force-fed.

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