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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
overfeed
verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Do not overfeed, and systematize your feeding to save the lives of your fish.
▪ Do not overfeed, only place in the tank enough brine shrimp to match the size of the brood.
▪ Do not be tempted to overfeed the fish on the last day before leaving!
▪ However, it is all too easy to overfeed and pollute the water and kill the babies that way.
▪ Just be careful not to overfeed.
▪ The main difficulty is that such heavy feeders are easy to overfeed and are capable of quickly fouling the aquarium water.
▪ The main guideline for heavy feeders is not to overfeed.
▪ There is a great temptation to overfeed in the last month to ensure calf growth and nutrition.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Overfeed

Overfeed \O`ver*feed"\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Overfed; p. pr. & vb. n. Overfeeding.] To feed to excess; to surfeit.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
overfeed

also over-feed, c.1600, from over- + feed (v.). Related: overfed; overfeeding.

Wiktionary
overfeed

vb. 1 (context transitive English) To feed a person or animal too much. 2 (context intransitive English) To eat more than is necessary.

WordNet
overfeed

v. feed excessively

Usage examples of "overfeed".

Most pets are overfed and underexercised, much too pampered and often bored.

Overfed and underexercised, they did not even run like normal children.

She would have liked to say that no chimo or chimee ever ate enough chocolate at one time to coat their entire insides with an indigestible brown layer, which was what had killed the overfed experimental subjects, the dakcha and gobhow meat animals.

When the arrangements had been made, when we had parted and I was living alone in the house, and I had spent the weekend at the Zoo and the Natural History Museum and the cinema and the Hard Rock Cafe with Tash, overfeeding and over-entertaining her but not knowing what else to do, I was sitting alone in the canteen at Megapolis when the chairman in shirtsleeves once again put his lunch down beside mine.

The brother and sister sat in hateful silence until Charles Bromley, rotund, jovial, successful and overfed, came into the room.

The rumble was due to overfeed from the Casa Grande stadium's air-conditioning system.

The lady's husband was an overfed, pompous little man, obviously some fifteen or twenty years older than his wife, who would probably have been still selling stamps in some rural post office had he not had the wisdom to join the National Socialist Party before the Austrian Corporal came to power.

Those men are what soldiers always are: victims of their officers, and if you want to find where the French have sown their mischief, sir, then you look among those damned, overpaid, overdressed, overfed bloody officers," and Sharpe threw a scornful glance towards the Real Companïa Irlandesa's officers who seemed unsure whether or not they were supposed to follow their men northwards.

Why should I overdrink and overfeed myself and give my strength to follies?

It had grown quite fat, through overfeeding (by Sennia - she claimed to have been training it, to do what I could not imagine).

I must speak to her about overfeeding the creature, it's getting absolutely obese.

It had grown quite fat, through overfeeding (by Sennia — she claimed to have been training it, to do what I could not imagine).

I must speak to her about overfeeding the creature, it’s getting absolutely obese.

A big, fat, juicy, huge-nostriled beast so overfed that it will be too lethargic to throw me, should I choose to ride it through the Via Dolorosa in the Holy City.