force-feed
English
Alternative forms
- force feed, forcefeed
Verb
force-feed (third-person singular simple present force-feeds, present participle force-feeding, simple past and past participle force-fed)
- To force a person or animal to ingest food, for example by stuffing food down the throat, or using a tube passed into the stomach.
- They were ordered to force-feed the prisoners on hunger strike.
- More broadly, also referring to forcing the drinking of a beverage or other liquid
- 1968, Gil Orlovitz, Milkbottle H., page 16:
- Mr and Mrs Rakmil, are rocking him back and forth on the carpet while Mrs Brody Nina's mother is trying to forcefeed him with another beer bottle.
- May 2013 Zoya Pirzad, "Things We Left Unsaid" page 277
- I finally poured water in a glass and shouted at him, "Keep your cool, man! You're more scared than the rest of us." And I force-fed him the water.
- August 2013 Vince Seim, "A Mortal Mistake" page 422
- Frederick collapsed upon the stone, coughing up all the water Aerox had force-fed him.
- December 2014 Tim Winton, "Cloud Street" page 88
- He remembers the sound of Fish thrashing under the net, how he was forcefed river until he was still and dead and trampled on by his own frightened kin.
- April 2015 Heather Burch, "Summer by Summer" page 116
- Over the next two days, Bray's fever returned, left, and returned again. I'd force-fed him enough water to keep him alive, but the supply was dwindling and he lost so much when he had the bouts of sweating, I knew we were hitting a danger zone.
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- To force someone to take in information or accept an ideology.
- The teachers at this school tend to force-feed their students information, rather than encourage critical thinking and debate.
Translations
force a person or animal to ingest food
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force someone to take in information
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