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breastfeeds

breastfeeds is the third-person singular simple present indicative of breastfeed.

breastfeeds is the plural 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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Questions about breastfeeds

What is breastfeeds the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Breastfeeds is the third-person singular simple present indicative of breastfeed.

Words near breastfeeds in the dictionary

  1. breastfeed
  2. breastfeeder
  3. breastfeeders
  4. breastfeeding
  5. breastfeedings
  6. breastfeeds
  7. breastflesh
  8. breastful
  9. breastfuls
  10. breastgirth
  11. breastgirths

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Adapted from Wiktionary: breastfeeds (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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