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overfeed

[ oh-ver-feed ]

/ ˌoʊ vərˈfid /

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verb (used with or without object), o·ver·fed, o·ver·feed·ing.

to feed or eat to excess.

Origin of overfeed

First recorded in 1600–10; over- + feed

Words nearby overfeed

overextend, overfall, overfalls, overfamiliar, overfatigue, overfeed, overfill, overfish, overflap, overflight, overflow

Example sentences from the Web for overfed

Overfed celebrities, muttered the cabbies before switching their receivers to Radio Chanson.

Russia's Olympic Choke Job |Michael Idov |February 26, 2010 |DAILY BEAST
For the next mile only the flamboyantly gorgeous or the flamboyantly simple beauty caught his overfed eye.

What Will People Say? |Rupert Hughes
But Jimsy turned his back on the flushed, overfed man whose eyes could not look him in the face.

The Girl Aviators' Sky Cruise |Margaret Burnham
Elodie, on beholding him, clutched a bursting corsage with both hands, uttered a little squeak and bolted like an overfed rabbit.

The Mountebank |William J. Locke

They were not overfed; I never saw youngsters so much let alone.

A Bird-Lover in the West |Olive Thorne Miller
He was a disgraceful, overfed doormat of a dog; and when he waddled off to my cookhouse to be fed, I had a brilliant idea.

Actions and Reactions |Rudyard Kipling

Medical definitions for overfed

overfeed

[ ō′vər-fēd′ ]

v.

To feed or eat too often or too much.