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overfeed

overfeed verb: to feed a person or animal too much.

Verb

overfeed (third-person singular simple present overfeeds, present participle overfeeding, simple past and past participle overfed)

  1. (transitive) To feed a person or animal too much.
  2. (intransitive) To eat more than is necessary.
  3. To feed material (e.g. fuel into a burner) from above.

overfeed meaning in Bengali and Tagalog

overfeed in Bengali

কোনো ব্যক্তি, প্রাণীকে অতিরিক্ত খাওয়ানো, প্রয়োজনের চেয়ে বেশি খাওয়া

overfeed in Tagalog

too feed too much to
bultakin

Forms of overfeed

third-person singular presentoverfeeds
present participleoverfeeding
past participleoverfed
pastoverfed

Past tense of overfeed: overfed

Origin of overfeed

From over- + feed.

Words formed from overfeed

Questions about overfeed

What does overfeed mean?
Overfeed means to feed a person or animal too much.
What is overfeed in Bengali?
Overfeed in Bengali is কোনো ব্যক্তি, প্রাণীকে অতিরিক্ত খাওয়ানো, প্রয়োজনের চেয়ে বেশি খাওয়া. See Overfeed meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is overfeed?
Overfeed is a verb.
What is the past tense of overfeed?
The past tense of overfeed is overfed.

Words near overfeed in the dictionary

  1. overfeatured
  2. overfeatures
  3. overfeaturing
  4. overfed
  5. overfeeble
  6. overfeed
  7. overfeeder
  8. overfeeders
  9. overfeeding
  10. overfeedings
  11. overfeeds

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overfeed (page history and authors); overfeed (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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