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Recent Examples of overfeed
The goal is steady feeding without overfeeding, which can damage the tree.
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Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Oct. 2024
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
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Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Oct. 2024
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overfeed
Verb
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The most common symptoms of overeating garlic include body odor and breath that smells like garlic.—
Kathi Valeii,
Verywell Health,
9 June 2025
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Without Landy, Wilson quickly regressed — back on drugs, overeating, retreating to his bedroom.—
Steve Marble,
Los Angeles Times,
11 June 2025
Verb
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And while May is also a busy month for ESPN and TNT, which in late spring are glutted with live NBA and NHL playoff games, cable as a whole accounted for less than a quarter (24.1%) of all consumption last month.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
20 June 2025
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The risotto was impeccably cooked, each grain a plump oval glutted with crab stock and a compound butter infused with ginger, shallot Thai chile and tomato.—
Jenn Harris,
Los Angeles Times,
18 June 2025
Verb
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Food trucks outside serve customers or many patrons bring a picnic lunch or dinner to snack on.—
Em Sauter,
Forbes.com,
15 June 2025
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Mindless eating and overeating can also be a risk, since people tend to snack for reasons other than hunger at night, including out of habit and boredom.—
Caroline Tien,
SELF,
6 June 2025
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“Overfeed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overfeed. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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