Definition of Overfeeds

1. Verb. (third-person singular of overfeed) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Overfeeds

1. overfeed [v] - See also: overfeed

Lexicographical Neighbors of Overfeeds

overfatigues
overfatiguing
overfavor
overfavored
overfavoring
overfavors
overfear
overfeared
overfearing
overfears
overfed
overfeed
overfeeder
overfeeders
overfeeding
overfeeds (current term)
overfell
overfertilization
overfertilize
overfertilized
overfertilizes
overfertilizing
overfierce
overfill
overfilled
overfilling
overfills
overfinance
overfinanced
overfinances

Literary usage of Overfeeds

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Poetical Works of John Dryden by John Dryden (1909)
"... He spends his little span, and overfeeds His cramm'd desires with more than nature and health In search of honor, and pursuit of wealth. needs ! ..."

2. Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea and Japan by Franklin Hiram King (1911)
"... applied more concentrated, not to lighten the burden but to avoid waste by leaching and over saturation. While ever crowding growth he never overfeeds ..."

3. The Christian Examiner (1843)
"The helpless infant, whom the indiscreet mother overfeeds, suffers pain and sickness as surely as the glutton, who devours voraciously. ..."

4. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"O wretched man ! in what a mist of life, Enclos'd with dangers and with noisy strife, He spends his little span ; and overfeeds His cramm'd desires, ..."

5. Macmillan's Magazine by John Morley, Mowbray Morris, David Masson, George Grove (1907)
"... but he talks of Englishmen who do not get mutton three times a day with genuine pity, as befits one who persistently overfeeds himself with meat, ..."

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