SPOON-FEED


Meaning of SPOON-FEED in English

( spoon-feeds, spoon-feeding, spoon-fed)

1.

If you think that someone is being given too much help with something and is not making enough effort themselves, you can say they are being spoon-fed .

Students are unwilling to really work. They want to be spoon-fed...

VERB : usu passive , be V-ed [ disapproval ]

2.

If you say that someone is spoon-fed ideas or information, you mean that they are told about them and are expected to accept them without questioning them.

They were less willing to be spoon-fed doctrines from Japan...

VERB : usu passive , be V-ed n [ disapproval ]

3.

If you spoon-feed a small child or a sick person, you feed them using a spoon.

It took two years for me to get better, during which time he spoon-fed me and did absolutely everything around the house.

VERB : V n

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