(~s, ~ing, 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 ~ 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