overfeed

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Recent Examples of overfeed Her methods, the court concluded, included injecting premature infants with air or insulin, overfeeding them, and harming them with medical tools. The Week Uk, theweek, 28 July 2024 Avoid overfeeding or feeding your baby too quickly. Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 12 July 2024 Infants might also react to overfeeding or a gas-inducing food in their nursing parent’s diet. Kaitlin Bell, Parents, 6 Feb. 2024 During the trial, prosecutors alleged that Letby killed five boys and two girls and attempted to kill another five boys and five girls in the hospital’s neonatal unit by poisoning them with insulin, injecting air into their veins or overfeeding them with milk. Annabelle Timsit, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023 See All Example Sentences for overfeed
Recent Examples of Synonyms for overfeed
Verb
  • However, overeating red meat has been linked to other health issues, such as cardiovascular (heart) disease.19 10.
    Julie Marks, Verywell Health, 20 Mar. 2025
  • However, due to their high fat content, overeating pecans can cause digestive issues like gas, bloating, and diarrhea.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 18 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • As Israel gluts the present with death and destruction, the future perfect has become a means of stirring timid Americans out of indifference and into something like sympathy for Palestinian lives.
    Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024
  • There are small evolutions of technology and cultural attitudes, but in a TV landscape glutted by dystopias, having any optimism about life 30-ish years in the future borders on revolutionary.
    Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Verb
  • Beverage and snacking giant PepsiCo was also on Goldman’s list.
    Darla Mercado, CFP®, CNBC, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Talking late and snacking in the kitchen is the best.
    Kayla Grant, People.com, 20 Mar. 2025

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“Overfeed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overfeed. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.

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