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breast-feed

breast-feed is the alternative spelling of breastfeed.

Meaning of breastfeed

Verb

breastfeed (third-person singular simple present breastfeeds, present participle breastfeeding, simple past and past participle breastfed)

  1. (intransitive, transitive) To feed (a baby) milk via the breasts; to suckle; to nurse.
    • This is a designated place for mothers to breastfeed their babies.
  2. (intransitive) To nurse, to suck milk from a breast.
    • Avoid using a bottle until confident your baby is breastfeeding effectively.2013, Baby-Led Breastfeeding: Follow Your Baby’s Instincts, →ISBN, page 281

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Forms of breast-feed

third-person singular presentbreast-feeds
present participlebreast-feeding
past participlebreast-fed
pastbreast-fed

Questions about breast-feed

What is breast-feed the alternative spelling of?
Breast-feed is the alternative spelling of breastfeed.

Words near breast-feed in the dictionary

  1. breast wall
  2. breast walls
  3. breast-beating
  4. breast-beatings
  5. breast-fed
  6. breast-feed
  7. breast-feeding
  8. breast-feeds
  9. breast-girdle
  10. breast-girdles
  11. breast-girth

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Adapted from Wiktionary: breast-feed (page history and authors); breastfeed (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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