Meaning

3 senses

  1. (transitive)To feed a person or animal too much.

    überernähren, überfüttern

    feed excessively

  2. (intransitive)To eat more than is necessary.

  3. To feed material (e.g. fuel into a burner) from above.

Examples

6 sentences

  1. Don't overfeed your dog.

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  2. Don't overfeed the fish, they can get sick.

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  3. Are pigs fat or do farmers overfeed them?

    ruСвиньи толстые или фермеры их перекармливают?

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  4. Ziri shouldn't overfeed his cat.

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  5. He's not overfed.

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Translations

4 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
too feed too much to:

Forms

overfeeds, overfeeding, overfed, overfed
Base formoverfeed · to overfeed
3rd person singularoverfeeds
Present participleoverfeeding
Past simpleoverfed
Past participleoverfed

irregular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyoverfeed
he, she, itoverfeeds

Past simpleLesson

all personsoverfed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave overfed
he, she, ithas overfed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill overfeed

Word family

2 related words
Relatedoverfeeding
Derivedoverfeeder

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
overemotionaloveremphasizeB2overestimateB2overfilloverflow
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