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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
spoon-feed
verb
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▪ Teachers should avoid spoon-feeding facts to students.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
spoon-feed

"to feed (someone) with a spoon," 1610s, from spoon (n.) + feed (v.). Figurative sense is attested by 1864. Related: Spoon-fed.

Wiktionary
spoon-feed

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 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.

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 mouth—and 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.