( 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