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bottle-feed

bottle-feed verb: to feed a baby using a bottle, especially using a bottle filled with milk other than from its mother.

Verb

bottle-feed (third-person singular simple present bottle-feeds, present participle bottle-feeding, simple past and past participle bottle-fed)

  1. To feed a baby using a bottle, especially using a bottle filled with milk other than from its mother

Forms of bottle-feed

third-person singular presentbottle-feeds
present participlebottle-feeding
past participlebottle-fed
pastbottle-fed

Words formed from bottle-feed

Questions about bottle-feed

What does bottle-feed mean?
Bottle-feed means to feed a baby using a bottle, especially using a bottle filled with milk other than from its mother.
What part of speech is bottle-feed?
Bottle-feed is a verb.
What is the past tense of bottle-feed?
The past tense of bottle-feed is bottle-fed.

Words near bottle-feed in the dictionary

  1. bottle whores
  2. bottle-arse
  3. bottle-arses
  4. bottle-blond
  5. bottle-fed
  6. bottle-feed
  7. bottle-feeder
  8. bottle-feeders
  9. bottle-feeds
  10. bottle-flipping
  11. bottle-holder

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