(to) spoon-feed
11spoon-feed — v 1. To feed with a spoon. Mothers spoon feed their babies. 2a. To make something too easy for (a person). Bill s mother spoon fed him and never let him think for himself. Alice depended on her mother for all decisions because she had been spoon… …
12spoon-feed — transitive verb (spoon fed; feeding) Date: 1615 1. to feed by means of a spoon 2. a. to present (information) so completely as to preclude independent thought < spoon feed material to students > b. to present information to in this manner …
13spoon feed — If a person is spoon fed, they are helped too much rather than encouraged to think by themselves or use their own initiative. Some teachers tend to spoon feed their pupils …
14spoon-feed — make something very easy for someone He is a very strict teacher and never likes to spoon feed his students …
15spoon-feed — /spoohn feed , feed /, v.t., spoon fed, spoon feeding. to cause to be spoon fed. [1605 15] * * * …
16spoon-feed — verb past tense and past participle spoon fed, (T) 1 to give too much information and help to someone: Spoon feeding students does not help them remember things. 2 to feed someone, especially a baby, with a spoon …
17spoon-feed — v 1. hand feed, feed by hand, feed with a spoon. 2. pamper, coddle, mollycoddle, cocker, cosset, baby; indulge, cater to, wait on hand and foot, overindulge, spoil, Sl. spoil rotten …
18spoon-feed — verb 1》 feed (a baby or infirm adult) using a spoon. 2》 provide (someone) with so much help or information that they do not need to think for themselves …
19spoon-feed — verb /ˈspunˌfid/ a) To help somebody (usually a baby) to eat using a spoon. b) To overly pamper or indulge someone, so that they do not act or think for themselves …
20spoon feed — Synonyms and related words: care for, cherish, coddle, cosset, cradle, cultivate, dry nurse, feed, fondle, foster, lavish care on, mother, nourish, nurse, nurture, pamper, suckle, sustain, wet nurse …
