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Give too much help to
Answer for the clue "Give too much help to ", 10 letters:
spoon-feed
Word definitions for spoon-feed in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to feed (someone) with a spoon," 1610s, from spoon (n.) + feed (v.). Figurative sense is attested by 1864. Related: Spoon-fed .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Teachers should avoid spoon-feeding facts to students.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. 1 To help somebody (usually a baby or elder) to eat using a spoon. 2 To overly pamper or indulge someone, so that they do not act or think for themselves. 3 To deliver information in as basic a manner as possible. vb. 1 To help somebody (usually a ...
Usage examples of spoon-feed.
The girl moved the tray close to his cranked-up bed and proceeded to spoon-feed him chopped steak and vegetables.
Machines gripped him, spoon-fed him grim gray food, napkined him, squirted drink into his mouthand then, as if accidentally, they gradually fell out of synch with spoon and squirt, their aim becoming less and less accurate.
Machines gripped him, spoon-fed him grim gray food, napkined him, squirted drink into his mouth-and then, as if accidentally, they gradually fell out of synch with spoon and squirt, their aim becoming less and less accurate.
Away from the stifling lack of intensity, from the day's hundred spoon-fed welfares, from the killing pace of the forced amusements that hacked at the Hydra, leisure.