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- v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overfeed.
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Examples
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Patting his stomach he said to me, My wife overfeeds me.
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She overfeeds my Jack Russell Terrier and he has fat pockets.
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Who is going to come out in defense of overfeeding animals in an America currently dealing with how much it overfeeds itself?
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She loves animals and may have a houseful of strays that she overfeeds and indulges.
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"If a mouse overfeeds it will gain weight, but it will remain a mouse" he told the cheering crowd.
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So that an individual who habitually overfeeds becomes, after a time, easily tired, physically lazy, weak, perhaps if temperamentally predisposed, nervous and hypochondriacal.
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Tappan, a heathenish idea persists that what they need more than hygienics and scientific discipline is some of that old-fashioned love -- love which rocks them when it is not good for them -- love which overfeeds them sometimes so that they yell with old-fashioned colic -- love which ventures a bacilli-laden kiss.
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He is idle and overfeeds himself: he is punished by gout, indigestion, or apoplexy.
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Gustav the Goldfish, a boy overfeeds his pet fish, causing it to outgrow its surroundings;
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Plot: A boy overfeeds his goldfish, which quickly outgrows every container in the house.
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