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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
breast-feed
verb
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breast-feed a baby
▪ 63% of new mothers breast-feed their babies.
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breast-feed

vb. (alternative spelling of breastfeed English)

Usage examples of "breast-feed".

With babies you breast-feed them and nibble their toes and talk to them and blow in their bellybuttons and make them laugh.

Mesni had breast-fed both Jahna and Millo to advanced ages to suppress her fertility.

Sap was delivered through the belly-roots, just as the Tree took back its nutrients by the same conduits: infants were not breast-fed but were swaddled by the Tree, nurtured by these vegetable umbilicals.

What could possibly be traumatic about being breast-fed by a chimpanzee?

She now breast-fed him -- my mother and all the neighbours had to admit that she did it well -- but she lacked the solemnity they expected of a nursing mother.

Breast-fed babies acquire stronger immune defenses and are less susceptible to numerous diseases, including diarrhea, ear infections, early-age-onset diabetes, influenza, necrotizing enterocolitis, and SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome).