WordNet
forced feeding
n. feeding that consists of the delivery of a nutrient solution (as through a nasal tube) to someone who cannot or will not eat [syn: gavage]
Usage examples of "forced feeding".
Livestock ranges appeared-the old kind, before the animals were herded into darkened buildings for confinement and forced feeding.
The physicians are trying to cure the growing obesity and neutralize the forced feeding by inhaling the spores.
And there was a very funny one indeed, an enormously fat man who looked like Hoagy Carmichael after six months of forced feeding.