bottle-feed
verb/ˈbɒtl fiːd/
/ˈbɑːtl fiːd/
[transitive, intransitive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they bottle-feed | /ˈbɒtl fiːd/ /ˈbɑːtl fiːd/ |
| he / she / it bottle-feeds | /ˈbɒtl fiːdz/ /ˈbɑːtl fiːdz/ |
| past simple bottle-fed | /ˈbɒtl fed/ /ˈbɑːtl fed/ |
| past participle bottle-fed | /ˈbɒtl fed/ /ˈbɑːtl fed/ |
| -ing form bottle-feeding | /ˈbɒtl fiːdɪŋ/ /ˈbɑːtl fiːdɪŋ/ |
- bottle-feed (somebody) to feed a baby with artificial milk from a bottle compare breastfeedTopics Life stagesc1Oxford Collocations DictionaryBottle-feed is used with these nouns as the object:
- baby
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